Chain of custody receipt

Source #2480

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleFast Company investigation
Original URLhttps://www.fastcompany.com/90262252/ted-cruz-still-using-blacklisted-cambridge-analytica-app-developer-aggregateiq
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2018-11-01
EntityAggregateIQ
Captured2026-04-08T01:37:59.508Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T01:37:59.508Z UTC
SHA-256a14ea0d05eeba4d450cbbc05e4953674143528a6c841fcb749d8d757f2288dae
Content length112 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
AggregateIQ developed Cruz Crew app for Ted Cruz's 2018 re-election campaign despite being suspended by Facebook

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

Anyone with a copy of the original document can verify the match:

  1. Take the URL field and the original document content.
  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/2480/receipt.json