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.

Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.

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Topic · social

Cost Of Living And Fiscal Policy

144 posts · 47,947 engagement · first seen 30 Mar 2022 · last seen 18 Jun 2026

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins have both ruled out forming a grand coalition, citing ideological incompatibility and impracticality, while highlighting political tensions and the influence of smaller parties like NZ First.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 138 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

19%

74%

Supportive 26 Critical 102 Dismissive 3 Neutral / explainer 3 Mocking 4

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 138 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.

17%

11%

72%

Positive 24 Neutral 15 Negative 99

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.

facebook

9 posts · 35,946 engagement

35,946
twitter

20 posts · 5,485 engagement

5,485
youtube

105 posts · 1,671 engagement

1,671
reddit

4 posts · 1,070 engagement

1,070

Cost Of Living And Fiscal Policy

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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