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Digital Stalking

8 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

This piece details Zeni Gibson's experience of prolonged digital and physical stalking, the inadequate response from police, and the broader systemic failures that leave victims unprotected, while highlighting the impact of her public disclosure on fostering a community of shared

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 5 articles
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Heard on radio

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.

  • We're going to talk about this for decades, aren't we? Bloody cross country. Now, caveat for what I'm about to say is that this is zombie hour, right? This is the zombie half hour of the show. But this does need to be addressed. Thank goodness someone has raised the fact that Simon Barnett. is a hot babe at the moment this was in a legit news a news it was on a legit news site I mean insofar as you can describe stuff as a legit news site and Joel Maxwell as a columnist that you would take seriously and I say that with love for Joel Maxwell and everything he does but for the most part I do try to avoid him however it was impossible to avoid him because he was writing a column about Simon Barnett he said am I the only one who wants to talk about the gorgeous elephant in the room and I said I said, no, Joel, you are not the only one. So I clicked on it. He said, I was shocked the other day while I was browsing stuff when I saw a photograph of a topless nature of former What Now presenter Simon Barnett. He's on some sort of reality show. Is it Celebrity Treasure Island or something like that? Yeah, he's on that at the moment. Joel says he has, this is Simon, he has exquisitely defined abs, for starters. If websites had centre folds, there would be staples running through Simon Barnett's golden midriff. I don't think his tight blue swimming trunks were standard military issue. Barnett was a tad yoked, somewhat buffed, jacked, swole, but mostly shredded slash ripped. He also had a chef's kiss tan. If age is just a number, then his was 2% body fat. And I just want to say thank God somebody addressed that in mainstream legacy media so that it is not, it's not weird that I am saying this on the radio. But there are many women around the country today and in recent months who have said, glorious, every single time, every single time I've seen a photo, just. Glorious. 17 away from 7.
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Sample framings

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spinoff Centre-left

systemic failure in online safety

Stalking survivor Zeni Gibson on what happens when you speak up
3 May
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

loopholes enabling abuse by known offenders

Full Show Podcast: 05 May 2026
5 May
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How the public reacted

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