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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 Service Ethics

202 posts · 6,980 engagement · first seen 2 Aug 2015 · last seen 20 Aug 2026

Standards of conduct, integrity, and accountability expected of New Zealand public servants and officials, encompassing concerns about misconduct, conflicts of interest, misleading of Parliament, and institutional mechanisms for investigating and upholding ethical behaviour across the public sector.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 122 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

20%
72%
Supportive 25 Critical 88 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 3 Mocking 5

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 122 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%
11%
79%
Positive 12 Neutral 14 Negative 96

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
    9 posts · 1,636 engagement
    1,636
  • facebook
    1 post · 856 engagement
    856
  • twitter
    12 posts · 615 engagement
    615
  • youtube
    100 posts · 343 engagement
    343

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.