Pith Number

pith:HTLIOF7L

pith:2018:HTLIOF7L2HQQDBJGXH5DBNPGB3

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The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans

Jeremy Blackburn, Michael Sirivianos, Nicolas Kourtellis, Savvas Zannettou

arxiv:1804.03461 v3 · 2018-04-10 · cs.SI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HTLIOF7L2HQQDBJGXH5DBNPGB3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:40:14.222695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3cd68717ebd1e1018526b9fa30b5e60ef408fc27f6103f4826c03026a461c46f

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.03461 · arxiv_version: 1804.03461v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.03461 · pith_short_12: HTLIOF7L2HQQ · pith_short_16: HTLIOF7L2HQQDBJG · pith_short_8: HTLIOF7L

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HTLIOF7L2HQQDBJGXH5DBNPGB3 \
  | 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: 3cd68717ebd1e1018526b9fa30b5e60ef408fc27f6103f4826c03026a461c46f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b41dc3ca5fb5f5b3bfdd0aea550403e0cdf0002ceb8f4084f976f2f46344e2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-10T11:31:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73b0a52ca13de36de5c8e5e6b49d0acf7bb66caf4d7304c4502871e8d613a42d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.03461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}