Chain of custody receipt

Source #2605

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.

TitleCourt proceedings reported by Bloomberg
Original URLhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/cambridge-analytica-just-filed-for-us-bankruptcy
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2018-08-21
EntitySalvatore LaMonica
Captured2026-04-08T17:26:04.683Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:26:04.683Z UTC
SHA-256e5114be65e19aaac55c5e51ebafab06dd5fb4d82566a67771b60a3d50d1ae36a
Content length101 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
The bankruptcy trustee stated there were 'minimal assets' available in the Cambridge Analytica estate

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

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

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  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/2605/receipt.json