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Proof: Court orders audit of Ruto's 'bloated' team of advisers

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T06:31:31Z","headline":"Court orders audit of Ruto's 'bloated' team of advisers","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"standardke","url":"https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001559480/court-orders-audit-of-rutos-bloated-team-of-advisers","v":1}

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SHA-256

ec690d67f51627417ab944038e29730a312e270ffede2f58d734433b5d674c8b

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Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-10-06 06:32 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 06:32 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 06:33 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ec690d67f516.json prints ec690d67f51627417ab944038e29730a312e270ffede2f58d734433b5d674c8b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ec690d67f516.json and headline-ec690d67f516.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-ec690d67f516.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.