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Proof: YouTube political commentator using AI to fake being Australian

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-16T20:00:31Z","headline":"YouTube political commentator using AI to fake being Australian","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/ai-generated-slop-economy-brazilian-deepfake-alternates/107158050","v":1}

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72feb12eee8559035d5622b6508479cb761c31cff1d227456d15422939bf7af6

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• The story pageNot sealed — no capture of the story page was requested.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-72feb12eee85.json prints 72feb12eee8559035d5622b6508479cb761c31cff1d227456d15422939bf7af6. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.