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Proof: Brazil: Bolsonaro's lead over Lula shrinks as votes come in

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T23:40:06Z","headline":"Brazil: Bolsonaro's lead over Lula shrinks as votes come in","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"dw","url":"https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-bolsonaros-lead-over-lula-shrinks-as-votes-come-in/a-79533857","v":1}

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SHA-256

3f154d6afd06b254191a703cafd3af62e1e22f9c524737f23459e545c48ec766

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969925, mined 2026-10-05 00:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 23:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:job-failed.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-3f154d6afd06.json prints 3f154d6afd06b254191a703cafd3af62e1e22f9c524737f23459e545c48ec766. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-3f154d6afd06.json and headline-3f154d6afd06.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-3f154d6afd06.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, 2 min after it was first seen.