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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 Tax Burden

232 posts · 24,849 engagement · first seen 12 Dec 2022 · last seen 9 Sep 2026

The financial cost borne by New Zealand taxpayers through government spending decisions, including subsidies, public service perks, and welfare programmes, and debate over whether such expenditure represents an undue or wasteful burden on public finances.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 111 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

92%
Supportive 7 Critical 102 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 111 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.

40%
56%
Positive 5 Neutral 44 Negative 62

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 · 17,096 engagement
    17,096
  • twitter
    58 posts · 3,255 engagement
    3,255
  • youtube
    40 posts · 360 engagement
    360

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.