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pith:VMTKJ3OC

pith:2018:VMTKJ3OC6ZL7AWUEVPXTWTNPET

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Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election

Alexandre Bovet, Hernan A. Makse

arxiv:1803.08491 v2 · 2018-03-22 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{VMTKJ3OC6ZL7AWUEVPXTWTNPET}

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Deception Strategies and Threats for Online Discussions

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:49.285284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab26a4edc2f657f05a84abef3b4daf24c8aa07e0c2b280adc0daf2cc96bae9c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.08491 · arxiv_version: 1803.08491v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.08491 · pith_short_12: VMTKJ3OC6ZL7 · pith_short_16: VMTKJ3OC6ZL7AWUE · pith_short_8: VMTKJ3OC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VMTKJ3OC6ZL7AWUEVPXTWTNPET \
  | 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: ab26a4edc2f657f05a84abef3b4daf24c8aa07e0c2b280adc0daf2cc96bae9c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a35a2f8f699273c24839ad5dc490af4ee248dc8608f1aacfa30a30acee360949",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-22T17:53:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7f48c5d48ea70b5473e2a3e6a52c555248d294a998d5f87a0328a57b486913f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.08491",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}