YOUPOL

An observatory of political YouTube and TikTok.

YouPol tracks more than 100 political channels and accounts in France, Quebec and the United States. Using machine-learning and artificial-intelligence methods, the observatory collects, archives and analyses the videos, what they say and the reactions they draw from the public.

Enter the observatory The method The methods paper (PDF)
Seven days of content on YouTube and TikTok · 29 September to 5 October 2026

Political YouTube and TikTok, the last week in brief

Every video published by the tracked channels is transcribed, summarised and counted by our local models. This panel gathers the synthesis of the last seven days, the records to read, the themes, the public figures named, the arguments and the removals; the three countries together or one of them, as you choose.

354
videos published
336
transcribed
191
records
126
hours of speech
15.4M
views
The synthesis of the week
France, Quebec and United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Writings attributed to Jordan Bardella and electoral disputes in Quebec

France Mediapart reports the existence of antisemitic writings attributed to Jordan Bardella between 2013 and 2015 and mentions an influence from Alain Soral. Jordan Bardella denies authorship of these words and denounces a "barbouserie operation." Additionally, Vincent Lapierre documents a rise in crime in La Souterraine, where a speaker attributes the unrest to "migrants." Meanwhile, GoldenBoy describes the use of force by some protesters during student mobilizations in Saint-Denis as "fascism."

Quebec The Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale denounces irregularities and "schemes" in the Quebec electoral system, particularly regarding manual counting. On a social level, Camron Diffusion claims that female celibacy results from a rejection of average men and the influence of feminism. Finally, Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur argues that the rise in fuel prices is organized by "globalists."

United States Breaking Points analyzes a disappointing October 2026 employment report and reports on a Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma. Breaking Points also mentions an attempted hijacking of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is using the incident for political purposes. Separately, PowerfulJRE features a former officer claiming the government is hiding non-human origin craft.

Generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 03:53 from the 101 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 248 records: Institutions and democracy (17%), Economy and labour (14%), Security and justice (12%), Education and culture (9%).

The records to readAll the videos

The most viewed videos of the week, in each country, whose content synthesis is produced by our local model; each opens in a side panel.

France354 videos
The themes, month by month Since 2016
August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
  1. Authority 13.9%
  2. Equality and inequality 11.4%
  3. Progress 6.6%
  4. Environment 6.5%
  5. Tradition 5.9%
  6. Democracy 5.4%
  7. Distrust of the state 5.3%
  8. Technology 3.6%
  9. Immigration 2.8%

October 2026: mean over 69 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking
June – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Jordan Bardella 1,030
  2. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 695
  3. Marine Le Pen 573
  4. Emmanuel Macron 568
  5. The Pope 264
  6. Donald Trump 258

Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking

The arguments of the moment By theme
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
  1. The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
  2. France is a Christian land and must preserve this religious heritageTradition · Last 7 days
  3. The high cost of fuel weighs on purchasing power and causes social tensionsEnvironment · Last 7 days
  4. Current society is in cultural and intellectual declineProgress · Last 7 days
  5. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
  6. Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
  7. Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
  8. Feminism and wokism deconstruct traditional social and family structuresTradition · Last 7 days

Arguments drawn by our local model from a sample of each theme’s political sentences, then checked against the sentences. All the arguments, by theme

Gone from the platforms… All
  1. FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
  2. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
  3. ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
  4. Street interview in Châtelet on ecology and its political affiliationVA Plus · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026

109 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.

Latest transcripts2 h ago
Updated every hour; the last seven days, recomputed every day. The collection figures are in the counter, bottom left. Explore the observatory
The corpus

Three countries, two platforms, 89 channels

Each channel is chosen and coded by the team: an orientation, a country, a language. The far right is deliberately over-represented, to study it closely; the American channels, in English, are transcribed and summarised without going through the classifiers, which are trained on French.

Our method

Detect, extract, transcribe, classify, name, summarise

Six methods, run on the project’s computers, each documented with its models, thresholds and reliability. Pick a step.

01 · Detect

The channels’ RSS feeds are read every six hours; every week their full list of videos is reread. A detected video enters the queue with its date; those of the last seven days go ahead of everything else.

The detail in the method

Cadence
every 6 h, full listing every week
Priority
the last seven days first

The method in full · The methods paper (PDF) · Cite the project

The team

Three researchers

Tristan Boursier

Tristan Boursier

Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead

Sciences Po Paris · Université du Québec en Outaouais

Research design, orientation coding and political analysis.

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Antoine Lemor

Antoine Lemor

Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead

Université de Sherbrooke · CIRST · RFICS

Methods, machine learning, infrastructure and website.

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Arnaud Miranda

Arnaud Miranda

Research collaborator

CEVIPOF · Sciences Po Paris

Political theory and analysis of reactionary discourse.

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The team and the affiliations · Write to us · Cite the project

Project paper