Bridgehead collected public Facebook comments on 17 October 2026 and classified 12,018 of them, from January 2022 to October 2026. They sit under posts by BBC Guernsey, Bailiwick Express, Guernsey Press, ITV Channel, Island FM and States of Guernsey, and in the public group Have Your Say (Original).
Each frame uses comments under the posts about that event, from the most-commented political posts each month (the first 15 comments, no replies), so heated threads are over-represented. A comment counts as political when its post is about deputies, the States, tax, the budget, committees or an election.
The collection tool stops at 1,000 posts for a page in a year. That cut BBC Guernsey, Bailiwick Express and ITV Channel to roughly the second half of each year, so pooling every page would mix months covered by different pages. The trend line therefore uses the three pages with full coverage: States of Guernsey, Guernsey Press and Island FM (8,029 comments). The frames also draw on the other pages and the group. The group has almost nothing for 2025, a gap in the collection, so it adds little to the 2025 frames.
Tone was labelled by an AI model as positive, neutral or negative. It was spot-checked on 24 comments (22 right); the full set was not audited. Positive means a positive tone, not agreement with the States.
The May 2025 frame rests on 15 comments, and the April 2024 Revenue Service disarray on 10, too few to summarise. Events involving criminal charges or arrests of named deputies are left out.
These are public Facebook comments; the private groups are not included, so the page says nothing about what is said in them. Quotes are shortened and shown without names. Timing between an event and a change in tone does not show that one caused the other.
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