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  • 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 · social

Ai In Welfare Decisions

22 posts · 4,984 engagement · first seen 14 May 2026 · last seen 9 Jul 2026

The use of automated and artificial-intelligence-driven tools by New Zealand government agencies to make or assist in welfare and benefit decisions, including related legislation, oversight concerns, and comparisons to Australia's Robodebt scheme.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 22 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

14%
86%
Supportive 3 Critical 19

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 22 classified posts that reference this topic. Distinct from stance: a post can be supportive of the topic and still negative in tone (an angry supporter) — the two together capture the texture short-form posts compress into very few words.

18%
18%
64%
Positive 4 Neutral 4 Negative 14

Platform mix

Where the conversation is happening. Engagement is volume-weighted (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies); a small number of high-impact posts can outrank a high-volume but low-engagement platform.

  • reddit
    12 posts · 3,030 engagement
    3,030
  • facebook
    1 post · 1,356 engagement
    1,356
  • twitter
    2 posts · 423 engagement
    423
  • youtube
    7 posts · 175 engagement
    175

Top posts by engagement

The most-engaged posts referencing this topic. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies; the order matches the digest ranking on /social.