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Proof: White House posts third taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump ahead of midterm elections

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T11:12:24Z","headline":"White House posts third taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump ahead of midterm elections","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"timesofindia","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/white-house-posts-third-taxpayer-paid-ad-campaign-boosting-trump-ahead-of-midterm-elections/articleshow/134535888.cms","v":1}

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148bb71a409978c23123370876629eedad52c8599eee77523fb6f955b40837ad

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968986, mined 2026-09-28 11:33 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 11:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 09:31 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-148bb71a4099.json prints 148bb71a409978c23123370876629eedad52c8599eee77523fb6f955b40837ad. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-148bb71a4099.json and headline-148bb71a4099.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-148bb71a4099.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, 5 min after it was first seen.