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Week of 1 Jun 2026
Topic

U16 Social Media Ban

60 items · 23 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

This collection of political commentary covers the National and Labour parties' support for a new India free trade agreement, a review into police integrity, leadership challenges within National, concerns over treaty obligations, the controversial proposal for a social media ban

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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. 19 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 19 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.

  • Well, I think the public deadline has been that they're working towards having something in place in advance of the election, which has been incredibly clear and consistently signaled. But what we have to understand is that the issue has moved well past where Catherine Web submitted her bill over a year ago. And public understanding has shifted significantly, and we're seeing a global movement now where, you know, for example, MESA has been being held to account um in the US um for their conduct. And actually this this this has become more complicated, which requires bipartisan support. So we're actually super thrilled and really comfortable about the fact that Labor and National should really see the issue here and are actually working constructively together on a solution. Oh, great. Okay.
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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.

paused due to political hesitation

News Briefing: 15 May 2026
14 May
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

bipartisan effort to protect children

Cecilia Robinson: Govt puts hold on social media ban for under 16s
15 May
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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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