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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

Media Accountability

940 posts · 66,662 engagement · first seen 25 Aug 2015 · last seen 25 Oct 2026

Media accountability covers the standards, ethics, and oversight mechanisms by which journalists, news organisations, and public broadcasters are held responsible for their reporting practices, editorial decisions, and conduct toward the public.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 298 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

46%
49%
Supportive 137 Critical 147 Neutral / explainer 11 Mocking 3

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 300 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%
85%
Positive 31 Neutral 14 Negative 255

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.

  • youtube
    259 posts · 8,585 engagement
    8,585
  • twitter
    20 posts · 1,612 engagement
    1,612
  • reddit
    10 posts · 1,408 engagement
    1,408
  • facebook
    11 posts · 1,377 engagement
    1,377

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.