Pith Number

pith:RDVAPVKQ

pith:2015:RDVAPVKQ24IXQGKE4PINWQTRXL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Debunking in a World of Tribes

Alessandro Bessi, Antonio Scala, Fabiana Zollo, Guido Caldarelli, Louis Shekhtman, Michela Del Vicario, Shlomo Havlin, Walter Quattrociocchi

arxiv:1510.04267 v1 · 2015-10-14 · cs.CY · cs.HC · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RDVAPVKQ24IXQGKE4PINWQTRXL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:30:07.591765Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88ea07d550d711781944e3d0db4271bae5deafdd249e1f56e1e48bcc77955439

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.04267 · arxiv_version: 1510.04267v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.04267 · pith_short_12: RDVAPVKQ24IX · pith_short_16: RDVAPVKQ24IXQGKE · pith_short_8: RDVAPVKQ

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/RDVAPVKQ24IXQGKE4PINWQTRXL \
  | 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: 88ea07d550d711781944e3d0db4271bae5deafdd249e1f56e1e48bcc77955439

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed52a1ba88bf181c2e40eb9932fd251a1b1d4973c2d1294e1e460ef7c7716325",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-14T17:58:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ecedb0c3fb760fff85d5dd1b038b7208cbd460f3c7009aa7f0ef51dc6a5e3a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.04267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}