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Proof: France's presidentialism crisis

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T03:41:17Z","headline":"France's presidentialism crisis","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"lemonde","url":"https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2026/09/28/france-s-presidentialism-crisis_6758022_5.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

2a30b1c8542f40477fb986fffd1354cbeaac35ba844b0ba59f5d545ba33cfb4f

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968929, mined 2026-09-28 03:57 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 03:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 03:43 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2a30b1c8542f.json prints 2a30b1c8542f40477fb986fffd1354cbeaac35ba844b0ba59f5d545ba33cfb4f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2a30b1c8542f.json and headline-2a30b1c8542f.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-2a30b1c8542f.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.