Tebini

What happens when an MP is arrested

Step by step, from the first headlines that morning to a report the next day.

1
09:40 · Media

The story is spotted

Outlets start telling the arrest two ways, and the split shows up as a signal.

PeopleAn analyst reviews every signal.
Coverage of the arrest, first three hours
“Corruption”
“Punishment”
10:0011:00 signal13:00

Each dot is one article. When one framing starts to accelerate, the split surfaces as a signal.

2
13:00 · Trigger

A wave goes out

Open questions go to the panel. A wave can also start from your question, or a date you plan ahead.

PeopleAn analyst sends every wave after review.
From signal to the panel
Signal or your question
→
Open questions drafted
→
An analyst sends it
→
Panel phones
3
Afternoon · Conversations

People answer in their own words

Five-minute conversations in each person’s language, run by AI. Nobody is primed with existing framings; findings are respondents' own words.

PeopleEvery panelist was recruited face to face.
One conversation
What have you heard in the last day or so?
They arrested the MP. Everyone at work was talking about it.
What are people making of it?
Nobody I know believes it’s corruption. He criticized the ministry last month.

Hypothetical and translated. The question never mentions either side’s account.

4
Overnight · Coding

Coded, then checked

Models label what people said inside a fixed framework. Labels are checked against a standard people set, and anything uncertain goes to an analyst.

PeopleAdjudicators set the standard and review hard cases.
A chatbot summary against our process
The chatbot way
Our way
A TRANSCRIPT
whatever gets pasted in
SOURCE
MEDIA + CONVERSATIONS
two sources, one corpus
NONE
no shared definitions
INSTRUMENT
VERSIONED TAXONOMY
one instrument codes both
ONE PASS
no second look
CODING
TWO-TIER CODING
hard items route to a stronger coder
NONE
errors ride through
CHECKS
HUMAN GATES
blind adjudication, escalation review, language sign-off
AN ANSWER
fluent, unverifiable
OUTPUT
THE WORD ON THE GROUND
belief × reach, per narrative, per segment
Nothing from the ground. No versioning. It always returns something. Models code inside gates. Human judgment is the standard.
A chatbot summary against our process
The chatbot wayOur way
Source
A transcript
Media + conversations
Instrument
None
Versioned taxonomy
Coding
One pass
Two-tier coding
Checks
None
Human gates
Output
An answer
The word on the ground
It always returns something.Models code inside gates. Human judgment is the standard.
5
Next morning · Report

The report lands

Software computes every figure against a multi-layer review scheme. A named analyst interprets and signs.

PeopleThe analyst is accountable for the reading.
Wave report, page one
The government’s account is not what people repeat
It’s about his criticism of the ministry48%
The opposition’s account34%
The government’s account22%
Under-25s outside the main citiesWithheld
n = 412 · more than one answer allowed
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