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  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
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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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Week of 3 Aug 2026
This week
Topic · social

Political Hypocrisy

843 posts · 52,748 engagement · first seen 7 Dec 2014 · last seen 15 Aug 2026

The perceived gap between the stated values, principles, or campaign promises of New Zealand politicians and political parties and their subsequent actions, decisions, or personal conduct in office.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 698 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

83%
17%
Supportive 1 Critical 576 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 1 Mocking 119

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 698 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.

98%
Positive 11 Neutral 5 Negative 682

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
    13 posts · 38,110 engagement
    38,110
  • youtube
    647 posts · 3,264 engagement
    3,264
  • twitter
    31 posts · 2,398 engagement
    2,398
  • reddit
    7 posts · 805 engagement
    805

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.