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Proof: Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T20:00:46Z","headline":"Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/john-kennedy-white-house-trump-ad-tax-money","v":1}

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SHA-256

0ab15b761a4953bb74c7edade6040ebee07b8859692f9f72d18bddd9d774fcec

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 01:03 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0ab15b761a49.json prints 0ab15b761a4953bb74c7edade6040ebee07b8859692f9f72d18bddd9d774fcec. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0ab15b761a49.json and headline-0ab15b761a49.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-0ab15b761a49.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 h 16 min after it was first seen.