Pith Number

pith:MV5DYPKU

pith:2018:MV5DYPKUVOYPO4NUAS76RU4HFR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Debunking Fake News One Feature at a Time

Antonio Mallia, Kedar Gangopadhyay, Melanie Tosik

arxiv:1808.02831 v1 · 2018-08-08 · cs.CL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MV5DYPKUVOYPO4NUAS76RU4HFR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:08:32.072227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

657a3c3d54abb0f771b404bfe8d3872c4d04cb199a1e459e43df307217039a7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02831 · arxiv_version: 1808.02831v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02831 · pith_short_12: MV5DYPKUVOYP · pith_short_16: MV5DYPKUVOYPO4NU · pith_short_8: MV5DYPKU

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/MV5DYPKUVOYPO4NUAS76RU4HFR \
  | 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: 657a3c3d54abb0f771b404bfe8d3872c4d04cb199a1e459e43df307217039a7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59b9588e155c35c93a6e322dcef060c99af81b1abcd4548d4e3e66eec8655e8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-08T15:45:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bce26b06c1c11d372f16e51cd5c6de4aae6df0637291f6d92dfc154c3ffd9247"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}