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Proof: Residents of Russian cities at center of plague scare 'don't trust' officials

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T14:42:09Z","headline":"Residents of Russian cities at center of plague scare 'don't trust' officials","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cnn","url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/08/europe/inside-russian-plague-scare-town-siberia-intl","v":1}

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SHA-256

706506d708dcac54545e1f3e723c67dbeebdcdca9007bc30de6106e3cc79357f

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970502, mined 2026-10-08 14:51 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 14:48 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 14:49 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-706506d708dc.json prints 706506d708dcac54545e1f3e723c67dbeebdcdca9007bc30de6106e3cc79357f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-706506d708dc.json and headline-706506d708dc.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-706506d708dc.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 min after it was first seen.