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Proof: Trump says men arrested over RAF Fairford incident had been 'under view for a long time'

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T16:01:57Z","headline":"Trump says men arrested over RAF Fairford incident had been 'under view for a long time'","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et","v":1}

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21710e284f1e8d5089462dbe8e6f9fa2423df24cfd6ce116fc8e340fb2651a29

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:58 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:28 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-21710e284f1e.json prints 21710e284f1e8d5089462dbe8e6f9fa2423df24cfd6ce116fc8e340fb2651a29. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-21710e284f1e.json and headline-21710e284f1e.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-21710e284f1e.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.

Sealed automatically, 5 h 15 min after it was first seen.