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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

Online Harassment

404 posts · 16,449 engagement · first seen 6 Sep 2015 · last seen 9 Sep 2026

Online harassment encompasses the abuse, threats, stalking, deepfakes, and coordinated hostility directed at individuals—including politicians, public figures, and ordinary people—via social media, dating apps, and other digital platforms, and the policy and legal responses aimed at addressing it.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 280 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

11%
53%
8%
15%
13%
Supportive 31 Critical 148 Dismissive 21 Neutral / explainer 43 Mocking 37

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 280 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%
20%
70%
Positive 28 Neutral 55 Negative 197

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.

  • reddit
    8 posts · 4,900 engagement
    4,900
  • youtube
    269 posts · 767 engagement
    767
  • twitter
    3 posts · 103 engagement
    103

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.