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
189
records
126
hours of speech
15.4M
views
The synthesis of the week
Quebec · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Contestations of the electoral system and bankruptcy of la Cordée in Quebec

The creator of the channel Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale denounces irregularities in the Quebec electoral system and calls the signature validation process for mail-in voting an "incredible lie." He claims that manual counting facilitates "schemes." In another video [zGnDTafTfWA], he argues that a formal notice received on September 25 aims to muzzle him to hide electoral malfunctions.

On the economic front, Maxime Ouimet presents the bankruptcy of the company la Cordée as an illustration of the inability of large companies to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution. Simultaneously, the channel NLB - FreedomNews claims that Donald Trump's protectionist measures are causing layoffs in the steel industry in Hamilton.

Regarding social relations, Camron Diffusion claims that female celibacy results from a rejection of the average man and that feminist ideology has stripped women of their seduction tools. Meanwhile, Le Verbe médias reports that a decline in sexual activity among Generation Z is explained by anxiety and financial obstacles.

Generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 04:04 from the 13 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 53 records: Economy and labour (32%), Institutions and democracy (17%), Immigration (11%), Technology (10%).

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. The state and public spending are inefficient and harmful to the economyDistrust of the state · Last 7 days
  6. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
  7. Artificial intelligence is used to manipulate information or create misleading contentTechnology · Last 7 days
  8. Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months

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 transcripts3 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 English-language corpus was extended in October 2026: its videos are transcribed and summarised, and its classifiers will soon be trained and deployed.

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