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 · 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.

88
videos published
79
transcribed
57
records
28
hours of speech
68.8k
views
The synthesis of the week
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 on 4 October 2026 at 17:10 from the 32 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

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.

Quebec88 videos
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 21.7%
  2. Environment 13.9%
  3. Distrust of the state 11.8%
  4. Technology 7.8%
  5. Authority 5.3%
  6. Progress 4.3%
  7. Immigration 2.7%
  8. Tradition 2.5%
  9. Equality and inequality 1.0%

October 2026: mean over 9 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking
March – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Donald Trump 256
  2. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 61
  3. Mark Carney 58
  4. Emmanuel Macron 44
  5. Éric Duhaime 36
  6. Bill Gates 30

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. Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
  2. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
  3. Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
  4. Immigration is a source of insecurity, violence, and delinquencyImmigration · Last 7 days
  5. The political system and institutions are disconnected from the people or manipulated by elitesDemocracy · Last 3 months
  6. Immigration should be limited or stopped to protect national interestsImmigration · Last 7 days
  7. 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

Gone from the platforms… All

No recent removal observed.

Latest transcripts1 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, 26 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