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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.
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

Government Accountability

5176 posts · 418,269 engagement · first seen 29 Nov 2011 · last seen 10 Sep 2026

The mechanisms, standards, and obligations by which New Zealand's government, ministers, public servants, and Crown entities are held answerable to Parliament and the public for their decisions, expenditure, and conduct.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 2525 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

32%
64%
Supportive 802 Critical 1611 Dismissive 2 Neutral / explainer 41 Mocking 69

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 2525 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.

10%
12%
78%
Positive 263 Neutral 296 Negative 1966

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
    121 posts · 189,017 engagement
    189,017
  • reddit
    122 posts · 24,660 engagement
    24,660
  • twitter
    144 posts · 14,945 engagement
    14,945
  • youtube
    2138 posts · 10,709 engagement
    10,709

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.