Pith Number

pith:XQSX56AB

pith:2018:XQSX56ABBSE3JLOR4HR7TOTPR7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mitigating Confirmation Bias on Twitter by Recommending Opposing Views

Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex, Mario Wagner

arxiv:1809.03901 v1 · 2018-09-11 · cs.IR · cs.SI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:05:57.036912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc257ef8010c89b4add1e1e3f9ba6f8fe08f833e40ab2b8142731b59ef9a15da

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.03901 · arxiv_version: 1809.03901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.03901 · pith_short_12: XQSX56ABBSE3 · pith_short_16: XQSX56ABBSE3JLOR · pith_short_8: XQSX56AB

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/XQSX56ABBSE3JLOR4HR7TOTPR7 \
  | 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: bc257ef8010c89b4add1e1e3f9ba6f8fe08f833e40ab2b8142731b59ef9a15da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63c6aa9d854e2564c7862632d9fa65edf62bebb077d9e57a98839666668d4c02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-11T13:54:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "241bcfd0ed89d1e82699507cccded720a2e4e17339d5796e98ff6dde152f675b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.03901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}