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Proof: European Parliament bans far-right politician’s SA exhibition

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T20:51:51Z","headline":"European Parliament bans far-right politician’s SA exhibition","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"dailymaverick","url":"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-07-european-parliament-bans-far-right-politicians-sa-exhibition/","v":1}

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SHA-256

196d0d5ea3e864be3e2588586da637f25598ff4dc71ce26afa7b0f154f39718a

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970397, mined 2026-10-07 22:09 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 20:53 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 20:53 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-196d0d5ea3e8.json prints 196d0d5ea3e864be3e2588586da637f25598ff4dc71ce26afa7b0f154f39718a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-196d0d5ea3e8.json and headline-196d0d5ea3e8.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-196d0d5ea3e8.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.