New Zealand legislation and public debate around the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill, which seeks to criminalise the creation and distribution of non-consensual AI-generated sexual imagery, including deepfake pornography involving adults and children.
How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
severe harm from fake explicit content
\\ \\ 3 June 2026\\ \\ Blog\\ \\ **Helen Clark Foundation's submission on Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill** \\ \\ Our submission on the Bill that recently passed its first reading highlights one key change \\ \\ H\\ \\ Helen Clark Foundationurgent need for expanded legal protection
A year after Luxon’s press secretary scandal, it’s still legal to secretly hit recordLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
severe harm from fake explicit content
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 12 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Look, I certainly hope that's not going to happen as far as I'm concerned. It's certainly not. People want three parties working together to solve problems. And I think what …
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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