Pith Number

pith:5ECD4U6T

pith:2017:5ECD4U6TW5KCKFZYQGZT2TE6KX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leveraging the Crowd to Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation

Alice Oh, Behzad Tabibian, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Jooyeon Kim, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

arxiv:1711.09918 v1 · 2017-11-27 · cs.SI · cs.HC · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ECD4U6TW5KCKFZYQGZT2TE6KX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:23.833639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9043e53d3b75425173881b33d4c9e55f70bac13b216be4e914afd197c23b521

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09918 · arxiv_version: 1711.09918v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09918 · pith_short_12: 5ECD4U6TW5KC · pith_short_16: 5ECD4U6TW5KCKFZY · pith_short_8: 5ECD4U6T

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/5ECD4U6TW5KCKFZYQGZT2TE6KX \
  | 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: e9043e53d3b75425173881b33d4c9e55f70bac13b216be4e914afd197c23b521

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07ca31a08d6b8d338740b1dda45b6fe319a285c19ed5a62cbe21fe4dece60085",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-27T19:00:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adbefe3fe18a96e1f62c7cd47330637380681c01a9c89e401c6c4db41e2eee2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}