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Proof: Brazil’s presidential race goes to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T01:12:55Z","headline":"Brazil’s presidential race goes to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/brazil-presidential-race-election-result-second-round-lula-flavio-bolsonaro","v":1}

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SHA-256

568d8d5999dbd975009728ffb65221c5796ce1082446d0ff3a53e1cbdc9c2959

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969936, mined 2026-10-05 01:24 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 01:18 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:44 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-568d8d5999db.json prints 568d8d5999dbd975009728ffb65221c5796ce1082446d0ff3a53e1cbdc9c2959. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-568d8d5999db.json and headline-568d8d5999db.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-568d8d5999db.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, 4 min after it was first seen.