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Proof: Records give insight into how one Cornell student responded to rape accusation

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T23:51:43Z","headline":"Records give insight into how one Cornell student responded to rape accusation","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigative-records-give-insight-accused-cornell-student-responded-a-rcna600987","v":1}

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SHA-256

e0971bb4440788626f5fed7956f4cda26d7510e5738ac3dc9a2a025874ea55dd

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969508, mined 2026-10-02 00:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 23:54 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-01 23:55 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e0971bb44407.json prints e0971bb4440788626f5fed7956f4cda26d7510e5738ac3dc9a2a025874ea55dd. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e0971bb44407.json and headline-e0971bb44407.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-e0971bb44407.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.