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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

Public Sector Financial Accountability

303 posts · 31,830 engagement · first seen 11 Aug 2021 · last seen 10 Sep 2026

Public sector financial accountability covers scrutiny of how government agencies, councils, and publicly funded bodies spend taxpayer money, including oversight of public servants' pay and leave arrangements, misuse of public funds, and the governance mechanisms that ensure responsible use of public resources.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 158 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

35%
61%
Supportive 56 Critical 96 Neutral / explainer 2 Mocking 4

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 155 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.

8%
88%
Positive 13 Neutral 6 Negative 136

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
    12 posts · 19,945 engagement
    19,945
  • twitter
    17 posts · 2,550 engagement
    2,550
  • youtube
    119 posts · 1,372 engagement
    1,372
  • reddit
    10 posts · 1,278 engagement
    1,278

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.