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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

281 posts · 47,817 engagement · first seen 12 Dec 2022 · last seen 24 Oct 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 79 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

8%
89%
Supportive 6 Critical 70 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 2

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 80 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.

26%
71%
Positive 2 Neutral 21 Negative 57

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
    15 posts · 24,526 engagement
    24,526
  • twitter
    26 posts · 2,874 engagement
    2,874
  • youtube
    38 posts · 139 engagement
    139
  • reddit
    1 post · 101 engagement
    101

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.