Pith Number

pith:SESQ2VTP

pith:2021:SESQ2VTPVEJNT3SX5NLHKXAOX3

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Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review

Emilio Ferrara, Emily Chen, Goran Muric, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Meiqing Zhang

arxiv:2102.08436 v1 · 2021-02-16 · cs.SI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SESQ2VTPVEJNT3SX5NLHKXAOX3}

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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	2026-07-05T02:16:02.911640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91250d566fa912d9ee57eb56755c0ebef619c8e3ba1f926d37fb250888404043

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.08436 · arxiv_version: 2102.08436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.08436 · pith_short_12: SESQ2VTPVEJN · pith_short_16: SESQ2VTPVEJNT3SX · pith_short_8: SESQ2VTP

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/SESQ2VTPVEJNT3SX5NLHKXAOX3 \
  | 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: 91250d566fa912d9ee57eb56755c0ebef619c8e3ba1f926d37fb250888404043

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "411ec9da842940b459948bde120ee8c293d85717fef4090ef718ec2f98938433",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-16T20:18:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57a94b907e2db5e233a7f10b7c8ad15a6173fb4c5057f4869547724a363d9477"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.08436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}