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Proof: Thomas Massie hits out at Trump over taxpayer-funded TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T12:20:20Z","headline":"Thomas Massie hits out at Trump over taxpayer-funded TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterms-ads-thomas-massie-b3057502.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

2fe983c9c32a96419724eb02508846fd3dc0e4f0efc38c87ac4c6a38521fe593

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968995, mined 2026-09-28 12:34 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 12:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 11:15 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2fe983c9c32a.json prints 2fe983c9c32a96419724eb02508846fd3dc0e4f0efc38c87ac4c6a38521fe593. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2fe983c9c32a.json and headline-2fe983c9c32a.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-2fe983c9c32a.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.