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Proof: Dada Morero recorded planning big pre-election spending — ‘We are 50 days away’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T19:21:40Z","headline":"Dada Morero recorded planning big pre-election spending — ‘We are 50 days away’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"dailymaverick","url":"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-01-dada-morero-election-spending/","v":1}

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SHA-256

71c41ed8ff3a751d73bf11ae2ad74c40c6549061de068522e29607f07f2f0934

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969486, mined 2026-10-01 19:40 UTC.

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• The record pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture this page: error:job-failed.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-01 19:24 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-71c41ed8ff3a.json prints 71c41ed8ff3a751d73bf11ae2ad74c40c6549061de068522e29607f07f2f0934. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-71c41ed8ff3a.json and headline-71c41ed8ff3a.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-71c41ed8ff3a.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.