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 · 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.

89
videos published
83
transcribed
61
records
26
hours of speech
53.9k
views
The synthesis of the week
France · 30 September – 6 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Controversy over Jordan Bardella's writings and high school mobilizations in France

Writings attributed to Jordan Bardella are the subject of a sharp controversy. Mediapart as well as the left-wing channels Clément Viktorovitch and Paroles D'Honneur claim that these texts are antisemitic and conspiracy-minded. Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen deny these accusations and denounce manipulations. For their part, the far-right channels Psyhodelik and Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS present the matter as a political execution. The channel PaduTeam suggests, however, that Marine Le Pen could use this situation to remove Jordan Bardella from the political scene.

High school blockades and police violence

Blockade movements in high schools are interpreted in divergent ways. BLAST, Le souffle de l'info and Jean Massiet Replay, left-wing channels, attribute these mobilizations to a lack of resources and denounce police violence. Conversely, the far-right channels OMERTA and Psyhodelik describe these actions as riots or an Islamo-Marxist insurrection orchestrated by LFI. A testimony published on OMERTA provides a nuance by specifying that the blockades specifically aim to denounce defective equipment.

Critiques of feminism and Pink October

Gender relations and health campaigns are questioned by several actors. Sana Nova and The Blind Spot, from the manosphere, argue that contemporary feminism seeks to dominate men. Killian Sensei - L'HEYOKAGE, also from the manosphere, criticizes the hypersexualization of women and advocates for polygyny. At the same time, the Pink October campaign is described as a commercial scam by Pragmatik Man, while Mediapart, a left-wing channel, sees it as marketing recovery.

Taxation and economic policies

Economic visions clash over taxation and education. Yomi Denzel and Jonathan Hatchi, of libertarian orientation, advocate for AI-based teaching and criticize taxation they deem penalizing for entrepreneurship. In contrast, Mediapart and Jean Massiet Replay denounce an austerity budget that would favor companies at the expense of social needs. El Rayhan, a far-right channel, opposes the taxation of billionaires.

Security, immigration and international tensions

On the domestic front, Vincent Lapierre and GEORGES link the rise in crime to migratory flows. La Sanction supports the existence of systemic anti-white racism and calls for the abolition of public service media. Regarding international affairs, OMERTA accuses the EU of using Russia as a diversion and claims that the bombing of Kramatorsk is a false flag operation. Idriss J. Aberkane, Ph.D x3 denounces the dehumanization linked to AI used by the Israeli army in Gaza, while Castor Carnassier links inflation to the preparations for a third world war.

Interferences and North American elections

Finally, Action Vitale claims that evidence of American interference in Quebec is weak. Frontières mentions the possibility of a majority for the Parti Québécois. Furthermore, OMERTA analyzes the influence of fuel prices on the American election scheduled for November 3, 2026.

Summary generated by our model on 6 October 2026 at 00:17 from the 246 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 216 records: Institutions and democracy (17%), Security and justice (14%), Education and culture (13%), Gender and family (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.

Quebec89 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 24.8%
  2. Distrust of the state 12.3%
  3. Environment 11.3%
  4. Technology 6.5%
  5. Immigration 4.4%
  6. Authority 4.3%
  7. Progress 4.3%
  8. Tradition 2.9%
  9. Equality and inequality 1.1%

Mean over 12 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 68
  3. Mark Carney 65
  4. Emmanuel Macron 44
  5. Éric Duhaime 42
  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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
  1. Voting and elections are the legitimate means of expressing popular will and achieving political changeDemocracy · Last 7 days
  2. Tax pressure and the management of public funds are unjustified or inefficientDistrust of the state · Last 7 days
  3. Fuel and energy costs weigh on purchasing power and the economyEnvironment · Last 7 days
  4. Artificial intelligence threatens employment and transforms human capacities or skillsTechnology · Last 7 days
  5. Law enforcement officers commit violence and abuses during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
  6. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity, stability, and prosperity of host countriesImmigration · Last 7 days
  7. Artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution are transforming society and workProgress · Last 7 days
  8. Feminism, wokism, and immigration threaten cultural identity and traditional social structuresTradition · 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

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 transcripts4 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.

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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