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Proof: What Jane Doe told Cornell hearing panel about alleged 2024 gang rape

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T19:01:18Z","headline":"What Jane Doe told Cornell hearing panel about alleged 2024 gang rape","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/US/jane-doe-told-cornell-hearing-panel-alleged-2024/story?id=137062506","v":1}

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70f351bbddc53219b252e7014c04939d97a24a513d5ed351eb7ea564a692023f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970387, mined 2026-10-07 20:32 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-70f351bbddc5.json prints 70f351bbddc53219b252e7014c04939d97a24a513d5ed351eb7ea564a692023f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-70f351bbddc5.json and headline-70f351bbddc5.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-70f351bbddc5.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  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.

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