Pith Number

pith:XPVEGGAH

pith:2020:XPVEGGAH43AC4ACGIXQZVHTRJX

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Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Fabio Saracco, Guido Caldarelli, Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De Nicola

arxiv:2010.01913 v2 · 2020-10-05 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{XPVEGGAH43AC4ACGIXQZVHTRJX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:13:23.353822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbea431807e6c02e004645e19a9e714df00fc1187c7338716016ba463940d2e7

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.01913 · arxiv_version: 2010.01913v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.01913 · pith_short_12: XPVEGGAH43AC · pith_short_16: XPVEGGAH43AC4ACG · pith_short_8: XPVEGGAH

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/XPVEGGAH43AC4ACGIXQZVHTRJX \
  | 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: bbea431807e6c02e004645e19a9e714df00fc1187c7338716016ba463940d2e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80491b2930c489862952f556b04a5d74abf3d10b3f5e0650b1193b9753de5a32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-05T10:49:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8ad421a55af3ff4bbb3486ce320011c092c4d3df259be59c95abb42768d1232"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.01913",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}