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.

Weekly Rolling 7 days

live window

Topic · social

Political Media Credibility

713 posts · 22,027 engagement · first seen 25 Apr 2008 · last seen 9 Sep 2026

The perceived trustworthiness and impartiality of New Zealand's news media and political journalists, encompassing public and political debate over whether outlets such as TVNZ, major newspapers, and prominent commentators meet standards of accurate, fair, and credible reporting.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 352 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

92%

Supportive 2 Critical 324 Dismissive 3 Neutral / explainer 7 Mocking 16

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 352 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.

91%

Positive 13 Neutral 17 Negative 322

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

323 posts · 3,201 engagement

3,201
reddit

9 posts · 1,995 engagement

1,995
facebook

5 posts · 1,539 engagement

1,539
twitter

15 posts · 1,115 engagement

1,115

Political Media Credibility

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

Top posts by engagement