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Proof: Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Why they're angry

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T14:51:58Z","headline":"Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Why they're angry","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cnn","url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/06/europe/france-student-protests-intl","v":1}

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SHA-256

e9b4bc5c3fca8b60c5527f499f4c133e0938b45c8824e2c7d20c2289140e6444

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970187, mined 2026-10-06 14:58 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 14:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 14:10 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e9b4bc5c3fca.json prints e9b4bc5c3fca8b60c5527f499f4c133e0938b45c8824e2c7d20c2289140e6444. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e9b4bc5c3fca.json and headline-e9b4bc5c3fca.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-e9b4bc5c3fca.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, 1 min after it was first seen.