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 · 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.

114
videos published
96
transcribed
50
records
28
hours of speech
72.4k
views
The synthesis of the week
United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

AI Security Agreement and US Employment Report

A voluntary agreement on the security of "superintelligence" has been reached between Donald Trump and AI leaders. Donald Trump and Elon Musk argue that self-regulation is preferable because industry actors are the most competent. Conversely, Breaking Points denounces this self-policing system and suggests that leaders should be prosecuted for illegal data extraction. Meanwhile, Representative Ro Khanna proposes legislation to ban recursive self-improvement in AI and create an independent security agency, asserting that tech billionaires cannot self-regulate. In a debate reported by Breaking Points, Bill Gates considers AI the most dangerous invention in history and rejects the idea that market incentives are sufficient, while Ezra Klein suggests that civil liability could limit risks. Breaking Points supports the need for strict regulations comparable to those in the pharmaceutical industry.

AI Consciousness and Socio-Economic Impacts

Anthropic co-founder Mr. Ola wishes to establish morality within the Claude model and suggests that AI could possess "personhood," opposing the position of the Pope. According to Breaking Points, this recourse to religious experts proves that creators no longer master their technology and that AI cannot be human because it is not mortal, although others view this spirituality as an extension of human nature. Bill Gates also likens AIs to "aliens." Economically, Bill Gates proposes taxing robots to fund pensions, a position relayed by Breaking Points to compensate for the loss of social security contributions. Additionally, Ro Khanna deplores the use of AI to maximize profits in healthcare and suggests that a single-payer system would limit billing abuses. Finally, total automation is presented by some as a risk of cognitive degradation, according to Breaking Points.

Political and Economic Situation of Donald Trump

The September 2026 employment report shows figures lower than expected. Breaking Points analyzes the impact of these data and reports that this economic degradation would make the public more sensitive to corruption allegations targeting the president. The channel also mentions a Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma and the organization of paid dinners for cryptocurrency investors, a practice described by one speaker as a lack of ethics.

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

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
April 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
  1. Democracy 23.8%
  2. Distrust of the state 12.8%
  3. Environment 12.2%
  4. Technology 6.7%
  5. Progress 4.4%
  6. Authority 4.3%
  7. Immigration 4.2%
  8. Tradition 3.0%
  9. Equality and inequality 1.2%

Mean over 11 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 269
  2. Mark Carney 65
  3. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 64
  4. Emmanuel Macron 44
  5. Éric Duhaime 41
  6. François Legault 35

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. Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec 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 transcripts15 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