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These two pgp public keys are the same but different?

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These two pgp public keys are the same but different?

I'm doing some research on .onion websites and was trying to verify an onion URL.

I got a public key from two different sources: side by side they are identical until about ten lines before the end. Which suggests to me that they're different.

But when I tried importing them both into Kleopatra it treated the second as if it was identical to the first (whichever order I did it) - basically saying you've already imported that public key. Fingerprint was identical and so was the "valid from" date. (Is this why Kleopatra treats them as identical?) Neither key will verify a signed message from the website even though the website provided the one key basically alongside the signed message, which is really confusing me - if it was a copycat website surely they'd make sure the (fake) pgp and signed message they provided would match?

So.. I'm really confused. Am I doing something wrong? Can you tamper with public keys? I don't understand how they would have the same fingerprint but be different - does the fingerprint mean nothing then?

Excuse the ignorance. I am trying to learn about PGP encryption but it's a work in progress.

Here are the two public keys:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=eX+0
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

mJMEX7W+sRMJKyQDAwIIAQENBAMEDFRakey8hWNTRQTXzmQnv2ccOstImWDWqJKa
HbZg/LfbY96ZRbto09GKMQ2Uf/OWeJPw75ElNbVvw5HbC+1UuRzfcuaM1KW+/7x0
f708DJRsmK619ONXHUXO/yBkJkRnNs2FcvH5H+hhvxC5XrCsm8ALJCc8Q86nb1j8
DSPROxi0CWluY29nbml0b4jQBBMTCgA4AhsDBQsJCAcCBhUKCQgLAgQWAgMBAh4B
AheAFiEEhHjKDBnkhXkJlR4tL70pZifOxuoFAmPItKcACgkQL70pZifOxuqjcwH8
CXShxQRvYG6KCEDD5sJP4ATn/E8yl9Vzat6QPWmr9lqfXl3caPOtOWTmGDHBAnq6
S2F1hsEWwt87Czsx3/+N0AH9HHynNQCLWlQL+/wE4Yl66E4nni0FngotCKk7H1M+
yGcEn+pBXKwHahGQHZdLkmLrs63TmNNigS0CkoZ78CNvaLiXBF+1vrESCSskAwMC
CAEBDQQDBFLjHfc2VE0AaD3DtlJSKG2M5Cpg7QyjxPNB8PRciKD0U5H2vP+4RYdW
jHbXzaNjcZxqMrKNg6ZaZKxFC5iRoDFAKc8ktBnopTRpQyc2IbENSNomGeJRnUjD
icMu9SeI9VEtYZkusQs7gi74ucgER3+qOOJJNqP9lieD4sXE0uYqAwEKCYi4BBgT
CgAgAhsMFiEEhHjKDBnkhXkJlR4tL70pZifOxuoFAmQNreIACgkQL70pZifOxurj
EgH/cMtmUM77L0YAeTgK/6hIGqQ43nE/FhNOpSNgY4UD5SyNnqoSRAA33yZ9pB6y
NOWZFUtM10EbwGnx+TMs+YQFJQH+N3lkIgG4KyEr4lY3XPCZXjRnkJiZVvIzvLMa
pACqkISAneeRkBIx714lNP69CiZ2d+HTU6S6q4uuKzsV4TkIzQ==
=RBxW
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----