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

Public Trust In Media Regulation

360 posts · 12,110 engagement · first seen 25 Aug 2015 · last seen 9 Sep 2026

Public confidence in New Zealand's news media institutions, encompassing debates over editorial standards, transparency of media ownership, regulatory oversight, perceived bias, and the factors that shape audiences' trust in journalism.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 154 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

95%

Supportive 3 Critical 147 Neutral / explainer 3 Mocking 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 154 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%

86%

Positive 6 Neutral 15 Negative 133

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

7 posts · 1,623 engagement

1,623
reddit

14 posts · 1,234 engagement

1,234
youtube

130 posts · 1,067 engagement

1,067
twitter

3 posts · 298 engagement

298

Public Trust In Media Regulation

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

Top posts by engagement