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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

764 posts · 86,649 engagement · first seen 6 Mar 2014 · last seen 9 Sep 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 462 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

82%
Supportive 21 Critical 381 Dismissive 5 Neutral / explainer 34 Mocking 21

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 462 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%
13%
79%
Positive 39 Neutral 60 Negative 363

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
    21 posts · 26,327 engagement
    26,327
  • reddit
    25 posts · 9,612 engagement
    9,612
  • youtube
    410 posts · 1,392 engagement
    1,392
  • twitter
    6 posts · 329 engagement
    329

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.