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.

169
videos published
168
transcribed
48
records
38
hours of speech
62.8M
views
The synthesis of the week
United States · 30 September – 6 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Financial Promises of Donald Trump and International Tensions with Iran

Donald Trump promises a payment of 5,000 dollars to Republican voters. Brian Tyler Cohen, from a left-wing orientation, describes this measure as a "bribe," while legal experts cited by the same creator consider the operation an illegal purchase of votes. Meanwhile, MeidasTouch, also left-wing, claims that Donald Trump is experiencing rapid cognitive decline and describes him as the most corrupt leader in history, although the channel reports that a dissenting voice views him as the savior of Western civilization. MeidasTouch further rejects the candidate's claims regarding an alleged Chinese psychological operation targeting data centers.

Conflicts and Relations with Iran and Russia

Tensions with Iran are manifested by the depletion of THAAD missiles and the bombing of a school in Minab, which Breaking Points, from a culture orientation, describes as a war crime. This channel reports that Iran would be using American debt to destabilize the U.S. economy. For its part, MeidasTouch mentions the existence of secret oil negotiations involving Jared Kushner and argues that Donald Trump is manipulable by Vladimir Putin. Regarding nuclear issues, Tuckercarlson, from an extreme-right orientation, reports that the new nuclear doctrine lowers the threshold for weapon deployment. Additionally, Breaking Points expresses skepticism about Iran's involvement in the arrest of suspects near Fairford base, citing the absence of explosives and a denial by Minister Araghchi.

Rape Accusations at Cornell University

The Cornell 7 case pits diverging views against each other regarding the guilt of men accused of gang rape. Harryjsisson, from a left-wing orientation, claims that messages published by ABC News prove their guilt and reports that the plaintiff is subject to doxing and threats. Conversely, Ben Shapiro, from a conservative right orientation, argues that no legal evidence exists and claims that the plaintiff modified her version of the facts. Ben Shapiro also criticizes the intervention of Governor Kathy Hochul, which he presents as a reaction to popular pressure.

Economic Situation and Job Market

The September 2026 employment report, indicating the creation of 29,000 jobs against 90,000 expected, is interpreted by Brian Tyler Cohen as an economic slowdown. He attributes rising prices to tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs, while the Trump administration describes the economy as "perfect." Breaking Points, however, notes disillusionment among voters regarding the price of diesel and hygiene products, linking these increases to tariffs on Canadian wood and pulp. Furthermore, Ben Shapiro, from a conservative right orientation, denounces the state interventionism of the "big government" promoted by J.D. Vance, claiming that it causes inflation.

Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

AI regulation is subject to criticism from Breaking Points, which denounces the voluntary security agreement between Donald Trump and industry leaders as "self-policing." The channel reports that Ro Khanna is proposing a law to ban recursive self-improvement in AI, while Bill Gates considers AI to be the most dangerous invention in history. Additionally, the co-founder of Anthropic argues that AI could possess a "personhood."

Summary generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 22:56 from the 47 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 48 records: Institutions and democracy (24%), Economy and labour (19%), International affairs (14%), Security and justice (11%).

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 States169 videos
The themes, month by month Since 2016

Coming soon. The theme classifiers are trained on French. Their English counterparts will soon be trained and deployed. Meanwhile, this country’s channels are transcribed and summarised.

The public figures most named The ranking
September – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Donald Trump 2,388
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 143
  3. Joe Biden 112
  4. Vladimir Putin 82
  5. Benjamin Netanyahu 80
  6. Volodymyr Zelensky 66

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

Content in preparation. It will appear here as soon as it is ready.

Gone from the platforms… All
  1. Cheveux Afros : cette loi va tout changer ? - REACTHistoires Crépues · unavailable, no reason given · 6 October 2026
  2. Quel ALCOOL ton pays BOIT le PLUS ?TAOQAN · made private · 5 October 2026
  3. FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
  4. Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026

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

Latest transcripts21 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, 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.

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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