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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 · social

Economic Inequality

597 posts · 80,931 engagement · first seen 6 Mar 2014 · last seen 22 Jul 2026

The growing gap between high and low earners in New Zealand, encompassing debates over wealth concentration, wage stagnation, tax policy, and the cost of living, and the policy proposals aimed at reducing socioeconomic disparities.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 580 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

85%
Supportive 28 Critical 492 Dismissive 4 Neutral / explainer 28 Mocking 28

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 580 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.

8%
14%
78%
Positive 44 Neutral 83 Negative 453

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
    38 posts · 57,804 engagement
    57,804
  • reddit
    48 posts · 15,969 engagement
    15,969
  • youtube
    479 posts · 1,643 engagement
    1,643
  • twitter
    15 posts · 348 engagement
    348

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.