Pith Number

pith:X6XCKZ3N

pith:2026:X6XCKZ3NV3BD7ATDL3YTXPGWU3

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False memories to fake news: The evolution of the term "misinformation" in academic literature

Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias, Christopher M. Danforth, Danny Benett, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Peter Sheridan Dodds

arxiv:2602.22395 v2 · 2026-02-25 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6XCKZ3NV3BD7ATDL3YTXPGWU3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-14T02:21:30.058001Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfae25676daec23f82635ef13bbcd6a6c851504771ba727c4ec05b7eeeca903f

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.22395 · arxiv_version: 2602.22395v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.22395 · pith_short_12: X6XCKZ3NV3BD · pith_short_16: X6XCKZ3NV3BD7ATD · pith_short_8: X6XCKZ3N

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/X6XCKZ3NV3BD7ATDL3YTXPGWU3 \
  | 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: bfae25676daec23f82635ef13bbcd6a6c851504771ba727c4ec05b7eeeca903f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3c4d7834d97ed79c7b604bfc48f292a9a85264baea873b1312f20426b5f74d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-25T20:42:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e8060c27a786ad2b27dfb1cbdeb1b3749fc6df003a6e7a6eb87089dc964d07a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.22395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}