Topic
Taxpayer Funding Misuse
101 items
· 27 aliases
· peaked week of 26 Apr 2026
· first seen 29 Apr 2026
A campaign against the NZ Taxonomy policy and the proposed reduction of farming at Belmont Farm Park, arguing both initiatives are ideologically driven, scientifically unsound, and harmful to farmers and rural communities.
How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
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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
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73 social posts
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11,427 engagement
Stance — 73 classified edges
Critical
72
Mocking
1
Sentiment — 73 classified posts
Positive
1
Neutral
4
Negative
68
Most-engaged posts on this topic
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twitter
· @winstonpeters
· sentiment: negative
· ♥ 3103
· ↻ 447
· 💬 693
· 6,076 engagement
23 Jan
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facebook
· thespinofftv
· sentiment: negative
· ♥ 246
· ↻ 40
· 💬 229
· 1,013 engagement
9 Jun
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reddit
· u/Hamster82
· sentiment: negative
· ♥ 540
· ↻ 0
· 💬 144
· 972 engagement
17 Jun
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