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Proof: Tips came in minutes after Cornell alerted students to an alleged sex assault at frat house

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T23:01:21Z","headline":"Tips came in minutes after Cornell alerted students to an alleged sex assault at frat house","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tips-came-just-minutes-cornell-alerted-students-alleged-sex-assault-fr-rcna601451","v":1}

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SHA-256

96e837b2bcf941b94a3400b72cd5af1bf8644886fdae6bf89e3a88d8f07987d5

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970096, mined 2026-10-05 23:40 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:03 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:03 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-96e837b2bcf9.json prints 96e837b2bcf941b94a3400b72cd5af1bf8644886fdae6bf89e3a88d8f07987d5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-96e837b2bcf9.json and headline-96e837b2bcf9.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-96e837b2bcf9.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.