Pith Number

pith:4WLI2MOW

pith:2020:4WLI2MOWO3LCB5EJG26IPJKSFU

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"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations

Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn, Kostantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos, Savvas Zannettou

arxiv:2010.11638 v5 · 2020-10-22 · cs.CY · cs.SI

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Evaluating AI capabilities in detecting conspiracy theories on YouTube

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:22:19.957786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5968d31d676d620f48936bc87a5522d2418fa34e7375d884752cd96fd3e6b01

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.11638 · arxiv_version: 2010.11638v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.11638 · pith_short_12: 4WLI2MOWO3LC · pith_short_16: 4WLI2MOWO3LCB5EJ · pith_short_8: 4WLI2MOW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4WLI2MOWO3LCB5EJG26IPJKSFU \
  | 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: e5968d31d676d620f48936bc87a5522d2418fa34e7375d884752cd96fd3e6b01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e06d901575c3b6793780ea1472822747fb3fdf10bbd8c5f7a887f92a0a3eca0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-22T12:20:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "963de28219e2fdd9a413f686549b0fb457459adcbe393180d22767afe671708c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.11638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}