Flock
Topic flock-cameras
Confidence: STRONG
5 of 6 tiers have recent data.
○ polls
✓ outcomes
✓ social
✓ audience
✓ narrative
✓ forecast
⚖️ Media vs Public — mild divergence
last 30d · updated Sep 03
Mainstream media
-0.22
30 articles
vs
The public (social)
+0.04
116702 posts · L +0.04
Gap
-26 pts
The sentiment gap here is modest and the sample headlines suggest something important: the mainstream articles flagged under "Flock" do not appear to be *about* Flock in any coherent topical sense — a dolphin stampede, a Singapore bankruptcy ruling, a 9/11 memorial — which means the sentiment scores are likely artifacts of keyword or entity matching rather than genuine coverage of a single subject. That limits what can be read into the -26 point divergence. What the gap *does* show is that whatever content the algorithm associated with this topic, editors framed it more negatively than the public responded to it on BlueSky and Reddit — a mild inversion worth noting but not overinterpreting. The public score of +0.04 is effectively neutral, and the media score of -0.22 is only mildly negative, so neither side is expressing strong signal. Until the underlying articles can be confirmed as topically coherent — actually covering the same "Flock" subject — the divergence should be treated as a data-quality question before it becomes an editorial one.
Sentiment −1…+1 (VADER) — not truth. A gap means coverage and public mood point different directions, not that either is right. See all gaps →
Tier 2 — Pollster readings (0)
No polls linked to this topic yet. Admin can link polls via the topic-management UI.
Tier 0 — Outcomes (0)
No outcomes recorded yet for this topic. Operator records outcomes at /admin/pollster-outcomes as elections, votes, and events resolve.
Tier 5 — Latent forecasting (the Clif-High layer)
Modal-language intensity + attention momentum + Wikipedia pageview signal. Predictive, not descriptive — what these signals suggest is coming.
Attention momentum (last 3d vs prior 3d)
-4.3%
FLAT
Flat (-4.3% over 3 days). No directional signal.
Modal-language intensity (current day)
anger
0.5
fear
0.4
hope
0.8
dread
0.1
certainty
1.3
doubt
0.5
urgency
3.7
complacency
0.7
Hits per 1,000 words. Delta is 7d-vs-prior-7d change. Rising fear/dread/urgency + falling certainty/complacency = typical "crisis warm-up" pattern.
Wikipedia pageview signal — Flock
Avg 166 views/day · 3d-vs-prior-3d momentum:
-14.3%
Pageview spikes typically precede mainstream-coverage spikes by 1-3 days.
Tier 4 — Mainstream narrative coverage
VADER sentiment over 30 recent articles from operator-curated mainstream sources. This is what the major outlets are telling readers about this topic.
Average sentiment
-0.40
VADER compound · 30 articles
Source mix
ABC News: 17 · -0.69
Bloomberg: 2 · -0.47
The Hill: 5 · +0.08
Politico: 3 · -0.26
CNBC: 3 · +0.38
Recent mainstream coverage
ABC News · 2026-09-03 ·
-0.99
ABC News · 2026-09-03 ·
-0.99
ABC News · 2026-09-03 ·
-1.00
ABC News · 2026-09-03 ·
-0.96
Bloomberg · 2026-09-03 ·
-0.74
The Hill · 2026-09-03 ·
-0.82
ABC News · 2026-09-02 ·
-0.97
ABC News · 2026-09-02 ·
-0.77
Tier 3 — Prediction markets (20)
Money-on-the-line probabilities. When market price diverges > 10pts from the poll average, somebody is wrong.
| Platform | Question | YES probability | Volume | Captured | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by March 31, 2027? | 47% | $23 | 2026-09-03 10:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by June 30, 2027? | 52% | $63 | 2026-09-03 10:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by December 31, 2027? | 52% | $145 | 2026-09-03 10:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by March 31, 2026? | 0% | $545,639 | 2026-09-03 10:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO in 2025? | 0% | $494,517 | 2026-09-03 10:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by March 31, 2027? | 46% | $23 | 2026-09-03 09:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by December 31, 2027? | 50% | $145 | 2026-09-03 09:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by June 30, 2027? | 52% | $63 | 2026-09-03 09:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO by March 31, 2026? | 0% | $545,639 | 2026-09-03 09:06 | ↗ |
| polymarket | Kraken IPO in 2025? | 0% | $494,517 | 2026-09-03 09:06 | ↗ |
Tier 1 — Social (paired, never merged)
Sentiment (avg compound, −1 to +1) split by platform political coding. Profoundd never merges left-coded and right-coded sources into a single number.
Left-coded platforms (BlueSky, r/politics, r/news…)
+0.04
avg VADER compound · 116779 posts
Sample left-coded posts
bluesky ·
+0.72
Also be aware, I learned this about our community. The police dept said they didnt have flock cameras. Our towns cameras, mostly school zone, are owned by redspeed. Who just so happen to have a Data sharing agreement with flock.
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bluesky ·
+0.00
FOX6 Investigators have now documented at least 148 cases of alleged Flock misuse by police officers across the country – including 11 in Wisconsin. Now, the City of Kenosha says it's ditching its Flock contract and going with another vendo…
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bluesky ·
+0.00
La Policía de Dallas va a desactivar cientos de cámaras automáticas de reconocimiento de patentes Flock.
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bluesky ·
-0.06
A cop illegally arrested you for recording him. Then his department ran your license plate through Flock over 100 times. Not investigating a crime. Just.....
https://reason.com/2026/09/02/wisconsin-cops-used-flock-over-100-times-to-track-a…
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bluesky ·
+0.19
Did you miss the Dapr Community Call yesterday? No worries, you can watch it back on YouTube:
- Flock - Declarative Blackboard Agent Orchestration
- IARI - Agentic RUP with Dapr Workflow
- Community show & tell
YouTube: youtube.com/live/…
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bluesky ·
+0.85
I considered mine worth it.
I'm just daily glad
Don't get sucked
In to Apple products
You can't hate
Flock Cameras
If you own Apple
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Sample right-coded posts
Tier 6 — Profoundd audience signal
Your readers' signal, not American public opinion. Last 30 days.
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Operator note: Track public sentiment regarding the expanding surveillance state and flock cameras.