Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
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An independent research project asking whether real photos and videos should carry a verifiable receipt from the moment they were captured.
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The project collects accounts of situations in which authentic media was challenged, using six reasons that range from a doubted marketplace photo to synthetic images of the respondent. Its proposed provenance receipt records a capture device, timestamp, coordinates, edit status, and whether the file bytes have remained unchanged. The displayed example is labeled as a sample, so the page does not establish that this verification system is currently operating.
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