Pith Number

pith:CJWIV2AQ

pith:2022:CJWIV2AQJL66MOMLUW55LVQMLL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Conspiracy Brokers: Understanding the Monetization of YouTube Conspiracy Theories

Cameron Ballard, Damon McCoy, Genesis Smothers, Ian Goldstein, Kejsi Take, Pulak Mehta, Rachel Greenstadt, Tobias Lauinger, Victoria Zhong

arxiv:2205.15943 v1 · 2022-05-31 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJWIV2AQJL66MOMLUW55LVQMLL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:28:04.148822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

126c8ae8104afde6398ba5bbd5d60c5ac8159c1d275d3e56087711ed14785d03

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.15943 · arxiv_version: 2205.15943v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.15943 · pith_short_12: CJWIV2AQJL66 · pith_short_16: CJWIV2AQJL66MOML · pith_short_8: CJWIV2AQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CJWIV2AQJL66MOMLUW55LVQMLL \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 126c8ae8104afde6398ba5bbd5d60c5ac8159c1d275d3e56087711ed14785d03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d09ab85048ebfb413c676ac38107ec6b8ae56eef270ea7a03af0dc252ddf10cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-31T16:42:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3993f0a27f4ebd091c443b28757e9a8528b4e08b87ad1ebf8c8c2f3b982dac87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.15943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}