Pith Number

pith:JKZZOF4H

pith:2014:JKZZOF4H5MIFUERADV7CODMDXG

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Science vs Conspiracy: collective narratives in the age of (mis)information

Alessandro Bessi, Antonio Scala, George Alexandru Davidescu, Guido Caldarelli, Mauro Coletto, Walter Quattrociocchi

arxiv:1408.1667 v1 · 2014-08-07 · cs.SI · cs.HC · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{JKZZOF4H5MIFUERADV7CODMDXG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:22.802726Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ab3971787eb105a12201d7e270d83b985b6a947e843a2b6ac2e6c7ed54d8f6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.1667 · arxiv_version: 1408.1667v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.1667 · pith_short_12: JKZZOF4H5MIF · pith_short_16: JKZZOF4H5MIFUERA · pith_short_8: JKZZOF4H

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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/JKZZOF4H5MIFUERADV7CODMDXG \
  | 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: 4ab3971787eb105a12201d7e270d83b985b6a947e843a2b6ac2e6c7ed54d8f6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3328a77e12f83f82a0264eeb2724c385b067a03ace97bf4e2b0b72651edb8759",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-07T17:51:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5fb45ebd9008e6d54db330de6c84979eb19bfb7913f6355df5a9f78987cdf0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.1667",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}