Waitangi Tribunal
3 of the four stages of the detection model fired for Waitangi Tribunal in this window: volume, framing, and amplification. Risk score 10.8. Volume: 6 items in the last 7 days, against a 1.5 prior-4-week-mean baseline (4.0x ratio). Framing: 7 of 12 framed items (58%) used the delegitimising register rather than substantive criticism. Recurring phrases include "attack on waitangi tribunal", "legislative override of waitangi tribunal", and "waitangi tribunal action". Amplification: 2 coordinator orgs were active on these topics in the last 14 days. The stages fired in tight cadence — the speed multiplier is at the upper end of the scale. See methodology for the four-stage model, scoring formula, and the underlying research.
Cascade
The four stages below correspond to phases identified in the literature on coordinated institutional targeting: an initial mention spike (volume signal), delegitimising framing of the institution’s statutory function, infrastructural amplification by aligned actors, and finally mainstreaming — the laundering of the framing into mainstream press cycles. See the methodology page for thresholds and the underlying citations.
Topics carrying this institution
| Topic | Press | Discourse | Social | Total (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| waitangi tribunal authority | 4 | 8 | 18 | 31 |
| waitangi tribunal evidence | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| waitangi tribunal interference | 0 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| waitangi tribunal urgency | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| waitangi tribunal funding | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| waitangi tribunal inquiry into treaty changes | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| waitangi tribunal recommendations | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| waitangi tribunal bureaucracy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| waitangi tribunal closure | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| legislative override of waitangi tribunal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| waitangi tribunal waste | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| waitangi tribunal effectiveness | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| waitangi tribunal abuse | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| waitangi tribunal workload | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| constitutional interpretation of waitangi tribunal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Detection methodology, stage thresholds, and the political-agnosticism statement are documented at /methodology. Detections don't auto-publish — they pass through an admit gate (human confirm + a written note) before appearing here, and rejections are logged with a reason.
Admit notes on this institution: Validation seed — admitted from discovery pipeline