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Proof: Ebola: Where did Kenya drop the ball?

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T21:01:32Z","headline":"Ebola: Where did Kenya drop the ball?","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"standardke","url":"https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001559550/ebola-where-did-kenya-drop-the-ball","v":1}

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SHA-256

42a58ae12c5d814b0d538e44d687be707f44cb7bf3375de53bb61612c9f78d6f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970236, mined 2026-10-06 21:35 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 21:04 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-42a58ae12c5d.json prints 42a58ae12c5d814b0d538e44d687be707f44cb7bf3375de53bb61612c9f78d6f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-42a58ae12c5d.json and headline-42a58ae12c5d.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-42a58ae12c5d.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.