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.

258
videos published
202
transcribed
5
records
54
hours of speech
85.8M
views
The synthesis of the week
United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Ro Khanna's AI Bill and Donald Trump's Political Rallies

The channel Breaking Points reports that Representative Ro Khanna is proposing legislation to ban recursive self-improvement in AI. According to this report, the lawmaker advocates for the creation of an independent security agency to counter the influence of tech billionaires. He also deplores the use of AI in healthcare to maximize profits at the expense of patients.

Breaking Points mentions a voluntary AI safety agreement reached between Donald Trump and industry leaders. The video creator criticizes this internal monitoring system, while Elon Musk specifies that the agreement includes joint monitoring and special committees. Additionally, Bill Gates asserts that market incentives are insufficient to regulate the existential risks of AI.

Donald Trump organizes rallies in safe states to stay in his comfort zone according to Breaking Points. The channel also analyzes a September 2026 employment report with figures lower than expected. Some contributors suggest that this economic weakness could push the Federal Reserve to limit rate hikes.

Meetings between the company Anthropic and religious experts aim to establish morality in the Claude model, reports Breaking Points. The video creator specifies that co-founder Mr. Ola maintains that AI could possess personhood. One contributor asserts that these steps prove the creators no longer control their technology.

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.

United States258 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 14.0%
  2. Equality and inequality 11.4%
  3. Progress 6.6%
  4. Environment 6.4%
  5. Tradition 5.8%
  6. Distrust of the state 5.4%
  7. Democracy 5.3%
  8. Technology 3.6%
  9. Immigration 2.9%

Mean over 73 videos in October 2026. Each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking
September – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Donald Trump 1,997
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 136
  3. Joe Biden 112
  4. Benjamin Netanyahu 70
  5. Barack Obama 52
  6. Vladimir Putin 51

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. Some political actors seek to establish authoritarian control over the army and administrationAuthority · 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

No recent removal observed.

Latest transcripts7 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, 11 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