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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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NZ political social media

This week, on Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook

Topics, framings, and platform patterns derived from the social corpus — tweets, Reddit posts, YouTube videos, Facebook page posts and their comment threads, plus Meta Ad Library disclosures — joined on the same canonical topics as discourse, press, and audio. Cards rank by engagement-weighted volume (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies), so a single viral post lifts a topic the way it does on the platform itself. Click any card for the topic detail.

Top topics — Last 7 days

The canonical topics with the most engagement on social media in the trailing 7 days — a sliding window, so the cards keep working through the Monday handover. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean. Stance bars (where visible) show how the AI classifier read the per-edge framings; sentiment bars show whole-post emotional valence. Distinct signals: a post can be supportive of a topic and negative in tone (an angry supporter), and the lens disentangles them.

Voting For National Party
46,060 engagement · 35 posts +75%

direct challenge to independent finance control

facebookyoutubetwitter

Top post: Party Vote National.

Public Awareness Campaign
22,652 engagement · 2 posts +6183%

urgent and necessary for all citizens

facebookreddit

Top post: EVERYONE in New Zealand needs to see this.

Legal Tender Interpretation
19,038 engagement · 3 posts new

reaffirming cash's statutory status in transactions

facebooktwitteryoutube

Top post: NZFirst will mandate that cash is accepted for payments and transactions. We have the legislation written and …

Cash Access Mandate
19,033 engagement · 2 posts new

defending consumer rights against digital overreach

facebooktwitter

Top post: NZFirst will mandate that cash is accepted for payments and transactions. We have the legislation written and …

How this lens works

Posts are polled from each platform's public API on a cadence (Twitter Basic tier hourly, Reddit every 30 min, YouTube and Facebook daily). Each post's text runs through a topic extractor that maps it onto the same canonical topic taxonomy used by discourse + press + audio — so a topic that spikes here will show up on the other lenses too. Two AI classifiers run in sequence: a 5-class stance classifier on each (post, topic) edge (supportive / critical / dismissive / neutral-explainer / mocking) and a 3-class sentiment classifier on each post (positive / neutral / negative). The two together capture texture short-form posts compress into very few words.