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 · 30 September to 6 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.

99
videos published
88
transcribed
73
records
28
hours of speech
68.9k
views
The synthesis of the week
Quebec · 30 September – 6 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Entrepreneurial Decline in Canada and Controversies over Éric Duhaime's Use of AI

The decline of the entrepreneurial sector and the departure of manufacturers to the United States are subject to sharp criticism. Maxime Ouimet, associated with the far-right orientation, attributes this situation to a lack of flexibility and predicts an economic bankruptcy more severe than that of 1929 under Justin Trudeau's government. For its part, NLB - FreedomNews, also of a far-right orientation, links this decline to regulation and "leftist mentalities," claiming that immigration and taxes stagnate the Canadian GDP. Maxime Ouimet also notes that French-speaking companies based in Florida suffer from a "political war" between the two countries as well as the effects of the exchange rate. Meanwhile, NLB - FreedomNews denounces the doubling of the Canadian debt and criticizes the 2021 Quebec law on psychological risks at work, judging that it hinders business creation.

Risks and Uses of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is sparking existential concerns and political controversies. Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur, of the conspiracy theory orientation, and NLB - FreedomNews, of the far-right orientation, warn about the dangers of AI for infrastructure. Maxime Ouimet argues that superintelligence will only benefit the elites. Meanwhile, Actualité Politique Du Québec and NLB - FreedomNews report accusations of deception regarding the use of AI by Éric Duhaime. The latter nuances these claims by admitting to having used the tool to structure his book. On a different note, Daniel Pilon claims that warnings about the dangers of AI are actually a political hoax intended to frighten the public.

Governance and Electoral Reforms

Political and electoral management in Quebec is contested on several fronts. NLB - FreedomNews criticizes a voting guide intended for Muslims and suggests removing the right to vote for voters who fail a political quiz. The President of the Association de l'Union-Nationale denounces the DGEQ's lawsuits, calling them "abusive remedies." In parallel, Actualité Politique Du Québec reports Paul-Saint-Pierre Plamondon's proposals on freezing elected officials' salaries as well as the Conservative Party's plan for increased penal firmness. Internationally, NLB - FreedomNews advocates for a moratorium on immigration to Canada and describes a Dubai-Tel Aviv aerial incident as a jihadist attack linked to Iran, while Maxime Ouimet claims that French laws on hate speech aim to censor criticisms of immigration.

Climate and Global Theories

Climate discourse is presented as a tool for control. Theovox tv, of the far-right orientation, claims that climate is a "false religion" of globalists aiming to establish governance via ESG criteria. Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur alleges that the World Economic Forum is organizing the rise in fuel prices to control populations. On the health front, Actualité Politique Du Québec reports the testimony of a detective suggesting a link between vaccination and six unexplained infant deaths. Finally, Actualité Politique Du Québec mentions the announcement of the Pacific Link pipeline by Mark Carney and accuses Health Canada of lacking independence from the CropLife lobby.

Society and Customs

Analyses diverge on the evolution of social behaviors. Le Verbe médias, of the culture orientation, examines the decline in sexual activity among Generation Z in the United States and reports that a worker perceives the PQ's school secularism as "state atheism." Camron Diffusion, of the manosphere orientation, attributes female celibacy to feminist ideology and excessive selectivity. Finally, Hugo Lecavalier, also from the manosphere, argues that behavioral flexibility allows one to remain consistent in the face of fitness obsessions.

Summary generated by our model on 6 October 2026 at 00:28 from the 66 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 73 records: Economy and labour (26%), Institutions and democracy (20%), Health (11%), Immigration (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.

Quebec99 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 14.9%
  2. Equality and inequality 11.7%
  3. Progress 6.4%
  4. Democracy 5.5%
  5. Tradition 5.4%
  6. Environment 5.3%
  7. Distrust of the state 5.3%
  8. Technology 4.7%
  9. Immigration 2.6%

Mean over 95 videos in October 2026. Each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking
March – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Donald Trump 284
  2. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 74
  3. Mark Carney 66
  4. Éric Duhaime 44
  5. Emmanuel Macron 44
  6. François Legault 38

Number of transcribed sentences naming them. The bar gives the channel orientation, the line the last twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking

The arguments of the moment By theme
Gone from the platforms… All
  1. Videographer Québec FIER advocates for immigration based on cultural compatibilityQuébec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026
  2. Video creator's analysis of immigration, nationalism, and European historyParti Nationaliste chrétien · deleted by its author · 3 October 2026
  3. Critique of transcapacitism and freedom of expression in universitiesle.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026
  4. Discussion on the persecution of Christians and media coveragele.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026

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

Latest transcripts40 min 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, 26 channels

Each channel is chosen and coded by the team. It gets an orientation, a country and 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.

Antoine Lemor

Antoine Lemor

Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead

Université de Sherbrooke · CIRST · RFICS

Methods, machine learning, infrastructure and website.

Arnaud Miranda

Arnaud Miranda

Research collaborator

CEVIPOF · Sciences Po Paris

Political theory and analysis of reactionary discourse.

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

Project paper