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

Special Needs Grant Food Denial

9 posts · 3,560 engagement · first seen 21 May 2026 · last seen 9 Sep 2026

The denial of emergency food grants by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development, which told thousands of applicants food was not an essential need, leading to an apology and political criticism.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 6 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

17%

67%

17%

Supportive 1 Critical 4 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 6 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.

100%

Negative 6

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

3 posts · 1,588 engagement

1,588
facebook

1 post · 1,069 engagement

1,069
twitter

1 post · 3 engagement

3
youtube

1 post · 0 engagement

0

Special Needs Grant Food Denial

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

Top posts by engagement