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What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
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Topic

Long-Term Development Absence In Afghanistan

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 9 Aug 2026 · first seen 16 Aug 2026

the absence of sustained government or international investment in development programmes, leaving children and communities without lasting support

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source
Commentary Afghanistan: One In 10 Children Acutely Malnourished As Plummeting Funding Closes Nearly 600 Health Facilities – Save… The Daily Blog · 15 AugRead ↗

Sample framings

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.

daily-blog Left

lack of sustainable aid deepens crisis

Afghanistan: One In 10 Children Acutely Malnourished As Plummeting Funding Closes Nearly 600 Health Facilities – Save the Children
15 Aug

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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