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.

104
videos published
93
transcribed
50
records
28
hours of speech
68.5k
views
The synthesis of the week
Quebec · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Formal notice from Élections Québec and bankruptcy of the company La Cordée

The channel Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale reacts to a formal notice received on September 25 from the Directeur général des élections du Québec. The video creator claims that the organization is using abusive legal remedies to persecute him. He links the onset of stomach cancer to the stress caused by this situation.

Maxime Ouimet comments on the cessation of activities of the company La Cordée. He argues that this bankruptcy is explained by a lack of flexibility and fixed costs that are too high compared to competition from Amazon. The channel advocates for the relocation of companies to the United States to optimize profitability.

The channel Theovox tv hosts a panel on climate change. Participants claim that human influence on warming is minimal and dispute the reliability of mathematical models. They argue that globalists use the fear of CO2 to control humans and replace the traditional economy.

Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur addresses the rise in fuel prices. A guest argues that this situation results from a World Economic Forum plan to crush the supply chain by 2030. The video creator claims that Donald Trump is manipulated by actors controlling prices and the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz.

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 50 records: Economy and labour (31%), Institutions and democracy (13%), 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.

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. Quel ALCOOL ton pays BOIT le PLUS ?TAOQAN · made private · 5 October 2026
  2. FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
  3. Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026
  4. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026

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

Latest transcripts10 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. 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