France
87 YouTube · 2 TikTok- 89
- channels
- 48k
- videos
- 22.8k
- transcribed
- 12.6M
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
- BLAST, Le souffle de l'info457M
- Psyhodelik186M
- Naj B Fit160M
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.
Seven days of content on YouTube and TikTok · 28 September to 4 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.
- 674
- videos published
- 522
- transcribed
- 275
- records
- 190
- hours of speech
- 51.6M
- views
- 388
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- transcribed
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- records
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- hours of speech
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- videos published
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- transcribed
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- records
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- hours of speech
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- transcribed
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The synthesis of the week
France, Quebec and United States · 28 September – 4 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Debates on Mediapart revelations, insecurity and the economic crisis
The content mainly addresses democratic tensions, security, and the economy. In France, left-wing channels denounce systemic racism and police repression, while the far-right emphasizes insecurity and judicial leniency. Positions differ regarding the authenticity of Mediapart's investigations into Jordan Bardella. Economically, left-wing social demands contrast with far-right calls for reduced public spending and libertarian financial advice.
France Dominant topics include Jordan Bardella's writings, insecurity in certain neighborhoods, and the crisis in the educational system. Left-wing channels analyze far-right communication and social inequalities. The far-right denounces state failure and the instrumentalization of youth. One conspiracy theory channel mentions a restriction of public liberties via Europe.
Quebec Discussions focus on the Canadian economic crisis, bureaucratic management, and the judicial system. Far-right and conspiracy channels analyze the attractiveness of the United States and corporate bankruptcies. The far-right also criticizes the justice system and opposes affirmative action in criminal sentencing.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026
Analysis of debates on identity, AI, gender, and institutions
The content focuses on national identity, artificial intelligence, gender relations, and political institutions. Positions vary by orientation: the manosphere criticizes feminism and analyzes celibacy, while the left denounces the instrumentalization of youth and neoliberalism. Libertarian and far-right orientations focus on entrepreneurship, taxation, and the impact of AI, while linking national recovery to patriotic pride.
France Videos cover national priority, education, and economics. The cultural orientation analyzes national priority from two opposing angles. Libertarian and far-right channels discuss AI applied to entrepreneurship and schooling. The left focuses on radical ecology and the legitimacy of political radicalism. The manosphere develops an ideological critique of feminism.
Quebec Content is exclusively driven by the manosphere orientation. The videos analyze the difficulties of romantic encounters and female celibacy.
Generated by our model
Topics of the claims in 275 records: Institutions and democracy (16%), Economy and labour (13%), 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.
France · 28 September – 4 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Debates on Jordan Bardella's writings, education, and security in France
Content focuses on Mediapart's revelations regarding writings attributed to Jordan Bardella. Left-wing channels assert the authenticity of antisemitic and conspiracy-theory messages, analyzing the use of a communicational "showcase" to hide radical convictions. Conversely, some left-wing sources mention manipulation or "barbouserie," while Le Monde is accused by the left of favoring the demonization-reduction of the Rassemblement National.
Educational and social issues divide orientations. Both left-wing and far-right channels denounce the lack of resources and teachers, although the far-right attributes obstacles in research on Arab-Muslim slavery to the influence of the far-left. Regarding security, the far-right highlights rising delinquency in Creuse and the breach of the social contract. The left analyzes riots as a class struggle and denounces police violence against high school students and suburb residents.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026
Debates on Artificial Intelligence, Education, and Identity Tensions
The content focuses on education, technology, and social tensions. Libertarian channels advocate for adapting education to AI and highlight the greater attractiveness of the US tax system. Far-right channels emphasize the utility of AI for content creation and the importance of professionalization through official structures. The culture channel compares national priority to the occupation under Marshal Pétain and characterizes this discourse as hate speech.
Regarding political and social issues, left-wing channels denounce the government's instrumentalization of youth and justify radicalism as a response to neoliberalism. Conversely, libertarian channels attribute the country's lack of recovery to a deficit of patriotism. Finally, the manosphere criticizes contemporary feminism, accusing it of promoting hatred toward men and absolute independence.
Generated by our model
Topics of the claims in 218 records: Institutions and democracy (16%), Security and justice (13%), Education and culture (12%), Gender and family (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.
Quebec · 28 September – 4 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Economy, immigration and artificial intelligence in Quebec videos
The analyzed content mainly focuses on economy, immigration, and technology. Far-right channels argue that Canada is heading toward total bankruptcy and claim that Quebec must reduce its immigration thresholds. They link the departure of workers to the United States to a lack of opportunities and criticize Justin Trudeau for favoring private interests. Regarding technology, they present artificial intelligence as an essential tool for visibility, while warning about the emergence of an uncontrolled "super intelligence."
Conspiracy theory channels attribute rising fuel prices to an organized effort to create inflation and accuse the World Economic Forum of planning the collapse of supply chains. They view calls to slow down AI development as a competitive strategy. Manosphere channels focus on health, opposing the biopsychosocial model to the biomedical model and addressing the concept of "food noise" and eating disorders.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 3 October 2026
Economic Exodus to the US and Institutional Criticisms in Quebec
Videos from far-right channels focus primarily on the economic exodus of citizens and businesses from Canada to the United States. They argue that Canada is no longer a relevant place for business and that workers aged 25 to 45 are migrating to find better opportunities. Politically, these channels claim that the CAQ has led Quebec to the worst deficit in its history and demand that the province regain control of immigration by reducing thresholds based on regional realities.
These contents also address institutional and technological issues. Far-right channels assert that hate speech laws are intended to censor criticisms of immigration and religions. They advocate for majority governments to guarantee stability. Finally, they warn about the emergence of a "super intelligence" not controlled by humans and state that the economic benefits of robotics are reserved for entrepreneurs and large financial groups.
Generated by our model
- Videoblogger's analysis of the political situation in Canada and France
- Discussion on the economic exodus of Canadians to the United States
- The videographer's analysis of the risks of super intelligence and AI
- Presentation of the Floride411.com digital directory for French-speaking entrepreneurs
- and 5 more
Topics of the claims in 57 records: Economy and labour (30%), Institutions and democracy (15%), Health (10%), Immigration (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.
United States · 28 September – 4 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model
Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.
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.
The themes, month by month
Since 2016
August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Authority 12.3%
- Equality and inequality 8.7%
- Democracy 8.1%
- Distrust of the state 7.0%
- Environment 5.5%
- Technology 5.4%
- Tradition 5.2%
- Progress 5.2%
- Immigration 2.2%
October 2026: mean over 76 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 14.8%
- Equality and inequality 4.3%
- Democracy 10.1%
- Distrust of the state 6.3%
- Environment 6.8%
- Technology 5.4%
- Tradition 5.5%
- Progress 6.7%
- Immigration 4.3%
October 2026: mean over 47 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 8.5%
- Equality and inequality 2.1%
- Democracy 7.1%
- Distrust of the state 1.9%
- Environment 10.7%
- Technology 2.0%
- Tradition 1.8%
- Progress 2.5%
- Immigration 1.8%
October 2026: mean over 19 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 15.4%
- Equality and inequality 26.1%
- Democracy 1.7%
- Distrust of the state 10.1%
- Environment 1.8%
- Technology 3.6%
- Tradition 11.2%
- Progress 10.4%
- Immigration 1.7%
October 2026: mean over 8 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 10.4%
- Equality and inequality 2.2%
- Democracy 13.3%
- Distrust of the state 9.9%
- Environment 2.9%
- Technology 10.6%
- Tradition 2.2%
- Progress 1.1%
- Immigration 1.2%
October 2026: mean over 2 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Authority 14.3%
- Equality and inequality 9.2%
- Environment 5.9%
- Progress 5.7%
- Distrust of the state 5.7%
- Democracy 5.4%
- Tradition 5.4%
- Technology 3.4%
- Immigration 2.8%
October 2026: mean over 64 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 17.1%
- Equality and inequality 5.1%
- Environment 5.1%
- Progress 7.2%
- Distrust of the state 5.0%
- Democracy 7.3%
- Tradition 6.3%
- Technology 4.9%
- Immigration 4.7%
October 2026: mean over 38 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 8.5%
- Equality and inequality 2.1%
- Environment 10.7%
- Progress 2.5%
- Distrust of the state 1.9%
- Democracy 7.1%
- Tradition 1.8%
- Technology 2.0%
- Immigration 1.8%
October 2026: mean over 19 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 17.2%
- Equality and inequality 20.3%
- Environment 2.0%
- Progress 7.5%
- Distrust of the state 10.3%
- Democracy 1.9%
- Tradition 8.1%
- Technology 3.3%
- Immigration 2.0%
October 2026: mean over 7 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
April 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Democracy 21.7%
- Environment 13.9%
- Distrust of the state 11.8%
- Technology 7.8%
- Authority 5.3%
- Progress 4.3%
- Immigration 2.7%
- Tradition 2.5%
- Equality and inequality 1.0%
October 2026: mean over 9 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Democracy 21.7%
- Environment 13.9%
- Distrust of the state 11.8%
- Technology 7.8%
- Authority 5.3%
- Progress 4.3%
- Immigration 2.7%
- Tradition 2.5%
- Equality and inequality 1.0%
October 2026: mean over 9 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Democracy —
- Environment —
- Distrust of the state —
- Technology —
- Authority —
- Progress —
- Immigration —
- Tradition —
- Equality and inequality —
October 2026: mean over 0 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
Coming soon: the theme classifiers are trained on French, and their English counterparts will soon be trained and deployed. Meanwhile, this country’s channels are transcribed and summarised.
The public figures most named
The ranking
June – October 2026 · ranking balanced by country, each country counts once
List
- Donald Trump 1,152
- Jordan Bardella 936
- Emmanuel Macron 626
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon 682
- Jeffrey Epstein 232
- Marine Le Pen 553
- Parti républicain 245
- Parti québécois 183
- Coalition avenir Québec 131
- Rassemblement national 823
- La France insoumise 748
- Parti démocrate 122
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
June – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Jordan Bardella 933
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon 678
- Emmanuel Macron 560
- Marine Le Pen 549
- Donald Trump 258
- The Pope 257
- Rassemblement national 821
- La France insoumise 745
- Front national 160
- Parti socialiste 149
- Parti communiste 58
- Les Républicains 35
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
March – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Donald Trump 256
- Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 61
- Mark Carney 58
- Emmanuel Macron 44
- Éric Duhaime 36
- Bill Gates 30
- Coalition avenir Québec 262
- Parti québécois 195
- Québec solidaire 106
- Parti conservateur 50
- Parti libéral 39
- La France insoumise 8
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
September – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Donald Trump 630
- Jeffrey Epstein 86
- Ben Shapiro 41
- Joe Biden 39
- Zohran Mamdani 39
- Benjamin Netanyahu 28
- Parti républicain 240
- Parti démocrate 115
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
- The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Immigration is a source of insecurity, violence, and delinquencyImmigration · Last 7 days
- The political system and institutions are disconnected from the people or manipulated by elitesDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Insecurity and urban violence are increasing in public spacesAuthority · Last 7 days
- Immigration should be limited or stopped to protect national interestsImmigration · 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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
- The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Immigration is a source of insecurity, violence, and delinquencyImmigration · Last 7 days
- The political system and institutions are disconnected from the people or manipulated by elitesDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Insecurity and urban violence are increasing in public spacesAuthority · Last 7 days
- Immigration should be limited or stopped to protect national interestsImmigration · 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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Immigration is a source of insecurity, violence, and delinquencyImmigration · Last 7 days
- The political system and institutions are disconnected from the people or manipulated by elitesDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Immigration should be limited or stopped to protect national interestsImmigration · Last 7 days
- The current functioning of institutions and electoral processes lacks transparency or legitimacyDemocracy · 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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.
Gone from the platforms…
All
- Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
- Street interview in Châtelet on ecology and its political affiliationVA Plus · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- Critique of Left-Wing Feminism and Debate on Immigration and ViolenceLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
118 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.
Latest transcripts
- Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
- Street interview in Châtelet on ecology and its political affiliationVA Plus · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- Critique of Left-Wing Feminism and Debate on Immigration and ViolenceLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
108 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.
Latest transcripts
- Video creator's analysis of immigration, nationalism, and European historyParti Nationaliste chrétien · deleted by its author · 3 October 2026
- Critique of transcapacitism and freedom of expression in universitiesle.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026
- Discussion on the persecution of Christians and media coveragele.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026
- The podcaster analyzes the influence of sexual experience on women's confidencele.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026
10 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.
Latest transcripts
No recent removal observed.
Latest transcripts
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.
Quebec
25 YouTube · 1 TikTok- 26
- channels
- 11.3k
- videos
- 6.4k
- transcribed
- 78.8k
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
All 26 channels
United States
6 YouTube · 5 TikTok- 11
- channels
- 11.5k
- videos
- 81
- transcribed
- 124k
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
All 11 channels
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.
- Cadence
- every 6 h, full listing every week
- Priority
- the last seven days first
02 · Extract
The video, its metadata and its comments are extracted; the audience is measured again at day 1, 7 and 30. A removal is recorded with its reason when the platform gives one, and a transcribed video keeps its record.
- Tools
- yt-dlp, RSS feeds, platform APIs
- Snapshots
- day 1, 7, 30, then monthly
03 · Transcribe
The voice is isolated from the music (Demucs), speakers told apart without being identified (pyannote), then Whisper transcribes each speaking turn in the spoken language, detected by windows. Turns are cut into sentences (SaT).
- Models
- Demucs, pyannote 3.1, Whisper large-v3-turbo, SaT
- Languages
- French and English, segment by segment
04 · Classify
Each sentence is classified as political or not by a classifier trained on human annotations, then assigned to nine themes by nine binary classifiers. Their reliability (F1, checked precision) is published.
- Models
- CamemBERTav2, one per label
- Measure
- mean share per video when orientations are compared
05 · The people named
The public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries of a closed list are recognised in the sentences by checked patterns and counted video by video. A private person named in a video is never counted.
- List
- entries
- Guard
- named entities (GLiNER) to set aside places and organisations
06 · Summarise
A local language model writes for each video of the week a record in French and English: title, summary, claims and their speakers, public figures named. The record is checked against the transcript; a name that could be a private person’s holds it back. The records feed the week’s synthesis and the arguments by theme.
- Model
- Gemma 4 31B, on the project’s computers
- Guard
- names checked against the closed list
The method in full · The methods paper (PDF) · Cite the project
The team
Three researchers
Tristan Boursier
Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead
Sciences Po Paris · Université du Québec en Outaouais
Antoine Lemor
Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead
Université de Sherbrooke · CIRST · RFICS
Arnaud Miranda
Research collaborator
CEVIPOF · Sciences Po Paris
The team and the affiliations · Write to us · Cite the project