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Topic

Internet Outage Cause

11 items · 9 aliases · peaked week of 14 Jun 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

One NZ resolves a widespread internet outage across the South and lower North Island caused by a software bug in a technology partner's system, with customers expressing frustration and service impacts extending to AA centres.

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. 4 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 4 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.

  • It's okay if a policy isn't is not aimed at you. Like one of the things that that I often think of, but don't verbalize, is I'm a middle income owner with no kids. That means that there's a broad range of um you know tax credits and benefits and that sort of thing that are just not targeted at me. And I'm I don't go and stand out on the side of the road going, where is the help for the childless? Probably the only reason that I'm surviving the economy at the moment is me and my wife don't have kids. Um so yeah, it's it's an interesting way to to look at things that I thought it was worthy of of mention. Um, thank you. That is my essay. Um into the normal super chats. Um late fee of arbitrary tokens that Google will clip for convenience. Absolutely correct. Yep, YouTube clip the clip the tickets on it, but uh everything is appreciated. Um it's in the ballot with a very generous ten dollars. Uh one thing Tangy didn't say but should have said is that most regional bus contracts are fixed flat rate prices contract per service, costing rate payers the same whether the service is full or empty.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

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How the public reacted

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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