France
87 YouTube · 2 TikTok- 89
- channels
- 48.6k
- videos
- 22.8k
- transcribed
- 12.6M
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
- BLAST, Le souffle de l'info457M
- Psyhodelik187M
- Naj B Fit160M
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.
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- videos published
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- transcribed
- 255
- records
- 199
- hours of speech
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- views
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The synthesis of the week
France, Quebec and United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Writings attributed to Jordan Bardella and electoral disputes in Quebec
France Mediapart reports the existence of antisemitic writings attributed to Jordan Bardella between 2013 and 2015 and mentions an influence from Alain Soral. Jordan Bardella denies authorship of these words and denounces a "barbouserie operation." Additionally, Vincent Lapierre documents a rise in crime in La Souterraine, where a speaker attributes the unrest to "migrants." Meanwhile, GoldenBoy describes the use of force by some protesters during student mobilizations in Saint-Denis as "fascism."
Quebec The Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale denounces irregularities and "schemes" in the Quebec electoral system, particularly regarding manual counting. On a social level, Camron Diffusion claims that female celibacy results from a rejection of average men and the influence of feminism. Finally, Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur argues that the rise in fuel prices is organized by "globalists."
United States Breaking Points analyzes a disappointing October 2026 employment report and reports on a Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma. Breaking Points also mentions an attempted hijacking of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is using the incident for political purposes. Separately, PowerfulJRE features a former officer claiming the government is hiding non-human origin craft.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026
AI integration in schools and the economic model of OnlyFans
France The BLAST channel (gauche) analyzes OnlyFans as a digital production tool and advocates for the recognition of sex work, while reporting that "institutional feminism" defines this activity as violence. Meanwhile, Yomi Denzel (libertarien) opposes a teacher regarding the integration of AI in schools, asserting that students should learn to solve concrete problems with the tool rather than copying results by hand.
France On political grounds, Les films à l'arrache (culture) presents a debate where one speaker compares national priority to the Vichy regime, while another claims that preferring foreigners over French citizens follows Pétain's logic. The Zawa Prod channel (gauche) claims that the police deliberately provoke clashes during high school blockades to justify forceful interventions. Sarah Knafo is seen by the Frontières channel (extrême droite) during a meeting in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
France Regarding society, Sana Nova (manosphère) denounces a "feminism 2.0" based on hatred of men and advocates for complementarity in couples HvgWaEMBabw. Jonathan Hatchi (libertarien) criticizes French tax pressure compared to the American model and promotes agentic AI for personal branding 8uA8va3dZlI. Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS (extrême droite) encourages the creation of legal structures to professionalize right-wing activities.
Québec: Camron Diffusion (manosphère) claims that female celibacy results from a rejection of average men and that feminist ideology leads to social isolation. Maxime Ouimet (extrême droite) criticizes the obsolescence of paper marketing and proposes a digital directory for entrepreneurs in Florida.
United States No content available in the files utJWIe74eLQ.
Generated by our model
Topics of the claims in 255 records: Institutions and democracy (16%), Economy and labour (13%), Security and justice (12%), Education and culture (9%).
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.
France · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Investigation into Jordan Bardella's writings and insecurity in La Souterraine
Mediapart Mediapart published an investigation into writings attributed to Jordan Bardella between 2013 and 2015, described as antisemitic and influenced by Alain Soral. Clément Viktorovitch Clément Viktorovitch claims these messages rely on antisemitic fantasies and serve to maintain Jean-Marie Le Pen's ideology under a banalized storefront. Jordan Bardella denies authorship of these remarks, denouncing a "barbouserie operation" Mediapart.
Vincent Lapierre Vincent Lapierre documents an increase in crime and degradation in La Souterraine, Creuse. He asserts that the State no longer respects the "social contract" as taxes no longer guarantee security. An intervenant in this video attributes these disturbances to "migrants" Vincent Lapierre.
Le Fil d'Actu - Officiel Le Fil d'Actu - Officiel argues that the government uses the Russian threat as a diversion to hide the failure of economic policies regarding rising fuel prices. Meanwhile, GoldenBoy GoldenBoy and Castor Carnassier Castor Carnassier discuss high school mobilizations, describing them respectively as "fascism" to silence opponents and as "riots" encouraged by a political party.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026
AI Integration in Schools, OnlyFans Status, and National Priority Concept
Regarding education, Yomi Denzel argues that teaching should focus on skills that AI cannot perform and use it to create concrete projects, while a teacher in the same video claims that manual work allows students to assimilate information.
Concerning OnlyFans, the channel BLAST, Le souffle de l'info reports that the platform constitutes digital content production and not prostitution because there is no physical contact, while noting that AI threatens the economic viability of human creators.
On national priority, Les films à l'arrache presents an exchange where one speaker defines this concept as prioritizing aid for French citizens, whereas another describes it as "hate speech" comparable to the Vichy regime.
Additionally, Sana Nova asserts that contemporary feminism is driven by a "thirst for hatred" towards men and that equality of rights has already been achieved in the West.
Generated by our model
Topics of the claims in 198 records: Institutions and democracy (16%), Security and justice (14%), Education and culture (11%), 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.
Quebec · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
Contestations of the electoral system and bankruptcy of la Cordée in Quebec
The creator of the channel Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale denounces irregularities in the Quebec electoral system and calls the signature validation process for mail-in voting an "incredible lie." He claims that manual counting facilitates "schemes." In another video [zGnDTafTfWA], he argues that a formal notice received on September 25 aims to muzzle him to hide electoral malfunctions.
On the economic front, Maxime Ouimet presents the bankruptcy of the company la Cordée as an illustration of the inability of large companies to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution. Simultaneously, the channel NLB - FreedomNews claims that Donald Trump's protectionist measures are causing layoffs in the steel industry in Hamilton.
Regarding social relations, Camron Diffusion claims that female celibacy results from a rejection of the average man and that feminist ideology has stripped women of their seduction tools. Meanwhile, Le Verbe médias reports that a decline in sexual activity among Generation Z is explained by anxiety and financial obstacles.
Generated by our model
The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026
Comments on female celibacy and promotion of a digital directory in Florida
The channel Camron Diffusion, oriented towards the manosphere, comments on testimonies from women expressing their loneliness. The videographer claims that female celibacy results from a refusal of the average man in favor of inaccessible men. He argues that feminist ideology has reduced women to their physical appearance by devaluing other forms of seduction, leading to social and family isolation as they approach forty.
Additionally, Maxime Ouimet, oriented towards the far right, criticizes the inefficiency of print advertising newspapers, which he calls the "dinosaur generation." He asserts that this model is obsolete because it does not allow for precise measurement of the audience or generated clients. The videographer offers French-speaking entrepreneurs in Florida the use of his digital directory, Floride411.com, to promote organic visibility.
Generated by our model
Topics of the claims in 53 records: Economy and labour (29%), Institutions and democracy (18%), 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.
United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days
US Secret Programs, Donald Trump's Travels, and Claude AI Morality
On the PowerfulJRE channel, a former intelligence officer claims that the US government is hiding non-human craft and bodies to avoid financial fraud prosecutions. He argues that the "deep state" is blocking the disclosure of this evidence and establishes a correlation between nuclear weapons tests and the increase in unidentified anomalous phenomena activity.
Breaking Points reports that Donald Trump visited Oklahoma, a state described as his comfort zone. Additionally, the channel claims that US aerial superiority over Iran no longer exists following the loss of several aircraft. In another video, Breaking Points asserts that Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is using an attempted hijacking of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight to present the Prime Minister as Israel's sole protector.
Regarding technology, Breaking Points reports that Anthropic consulted religious experts to implement morality and explore the consciousness of its AI, Claude. One speaker on the channel argues that this reliance on religion shows that the creators no longer understand how their technology works.
Generated by our model
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
August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Authority 12.0%
- Equality and inequality 10.0%
- Democracy 8.2%
- Distrust of the state 6.8%
- Environment 5.9%
- Progress 5.7%
- Technology 5.5%
- Tradition 5.4%
- Immigration 2.4%
October 2026: mean over 83 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 14.5%
- Equality and inequality 4.6%
- Democracy 10.7%
- Distrust of the state 6.6%
- Environment 6.4%
- Progress 6.3%
- Technology 5.1%
- Tradition 5.7%
- Immigration 4.5%
October 2026: mean over 53 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 8.5%
- Equality and inequality 2.1%
- Democracy 7.1%
- Distrust of the state 1.9%
- Environment 10.7%
- Progress 2.5%
- Technology 2.0%
- Tradition 1.8%
- Immigration 1.8%
October 2026: mean over 19 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 14.5%
- Equality and inequality 31.1%
- Democracy 1.5%
- Distrust of the state 9.0%
- Environment 3.6%
- Progress 12.8%
- Technology 4.4%
- Tradition 12.0%
- Immigration 1.9%
October 2026: mean over 9 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 10.4%
- Equality and inequality 2.2%
- Democracy 13.3%
- Distrust of the state 9.9%
- Environment 2.9%
- Progress 1.1%
- Technology 10.6%
- Tradition 2.2%
- Immigration 1.2%
October 2026: mean over 2 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Authority 13.9%
- Equality and inequality 11.4%
- Progress 6.6%
- Environment 6.5%
- Tradition 5.9%
- Democracy 5.4%
- Distrust of the state 5.3%
- Technology 3.6%
- Immigration 2.8%
October 2026: mean over 69 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 17.2%
- Equality and inequality 5.5%
- Progress 6.8%
- Environment 4.9%
- Tradition 6.5%
- Democracy 7.3%
- Distrust of the state 5.0%
- Technology 4.6%
- Immigration 4.5%
October 2026: mean over 42 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 8.5%
- Equality and inequality 2.1%
- Progress 2.5%
- Environment 10.7%
- Tradition 1.8%
- Democracy 7.1%
- Distrust of the state 1.9%
- Technology 2.0%
- Immigration 1.8%
October 2026: mean over 19 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Authority 16.0%
- Equality and inequality 26.7%
- Progress 10.6%
- Environment 4.0%
- Tradition 9.3%
- Democracy 1.7%
- Distrust of the state 9.0%
- Technology 4.2%
- Immigration 2.2%
October 2026: mean over 8 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
April 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme
Orientation
- Democracy 23.8%
- Distrust of the state 12.8%
- Environment 12.2%
- Technology 6.7%
- Progress 4.4%
- Authority 4.3%
- Immigration 4.2%
- Tradition 3.0%
- Equality and inequality 1.2%
October 2026: mean over 11 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Democracy 23.8%
- Distrust of the state 12.8%
- Environment 12.2%
- Technology 6.7%
- Progress 4.4%
- Authority 4.3%
- Immigration 4.2%
- Tradition 3.0%
- Equality and inequality 1.2%
October 2026: mean over 11 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
- Democracy —
- Distrust of the state —
- Environment —
- Technology —
- Progress —
- Authority —
- Immigration —
- Tradition —
- Equality and inequality —
October 2026: mean over 0 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016
Coming soon: the theme classifiers are trained on French, and 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
June – October 2026 · ranking balanced by country, each country counts once
List
- Donald Trump 1,948
- Jordan Bardella 1,033
- Emmanuel Macron 634
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon 699
- Marine Le Pen 577
- The Pope 303
- Parti québécois 231
- Coalition avenir Québec 184
- Parti républicain 351
- Rassemblement national 863
- La France insoumise 786
- Parti démocrate 189
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
June – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Jordan Bardella 1,030
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon 695
- Marine Le Pen 573
- Emmanuel Macron 568
- The Pope 264
- Donald Trump 258
- Rassemblement national 860
- La France insoumise 783
- Front national 192
- Parti socialiste 149
- Parti communiste 59
- Les Républicains 35
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
March – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Donald Trump 269
- Mark Carney 65
- Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 64
- Emmanuel Macron 44
- Éric Duhaime 41
- François Legault 35
- Coalition avenir Québec 315
- Parti québécois 243
- Québec solidaire 115
- Parti conservateur 77
- Parti libéral 47
- La France insoumise 8
Number of transcribed sentences naming them; bar: channel orientation; line: twelve months. Closed list of public figures. The full ranking
September – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
- Donald Trump 1,413
- Jeffrey Epstein 103
- Joe Biden 77
- Barack Obama 43
- Zohran Mamdani 41
- Ben Shapiro 41
- Parti républicain 346
- Parti démocrate 182
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
- The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
- France is a Christian land and must preserve this religious heritageTradition · Last 7 days
- Current society is in cultural and intellectual declineProgress · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Feminism and wokism deconstruct traditional social and family structuresTradition · Last 7 days
- Artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution are profoundly transforming society and workProgress · 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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
- The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
- France is a Christian land and must preserve this religious heritageTradition · Last 7 days
- Current society is in cultural and intellectual declineProgress · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Feminism and wokism deconstruct traditional social and family structuresTradition · Last 7 days
- Artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution are profoundly transforming society and workProgress · 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
the first arguments of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
- Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
- Artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution are profoundly transforming society and workProgress · Last 7 days
- Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
- France is a Christian land and must preserve this religious heritageTradition · Last 7 days
- Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
- Immigration is a source of insecurity, violence, and delinquencyImmigration · Last 7 days
- Feminism and wokism deconstruct traditional social and family structuresTradition · Last 7 days
- The political system and institutions are disconnected from the people or manipulated by elitesDemocracy · 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
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
- FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
- Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026
- Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
120 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.
Latest transcripts
- FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
- Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
- ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
- Street interview in Châtelet on ecology and its political affiliationVA Plus · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
109 videos removed in 120 days; a video transcribed before its removal keeps its record.
Latest transcripts
- Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026
- Video creator's analysis of immigration, nationalism, and European historyParti Nationaliste chrétien · deleted by its author · 3 October 2026
- Critique of transcapacitism and freedom of expression in universitiesle.lucide.podcast · unavailable, no reason given · 20 July 2026
- 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 transcripts
No recent removal observed.
Latest transcripts
The corpus
Three countries, two platforms, 11 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.
Quebec
25 YouTube · 1 TikTok- 26
- channels
- 11.6k
- videos
- 6.5k
- transcribed
- 79k
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
All 26 channels
United States
6 YouTube · 5 TikTok- 11
- channels
- 11.9k
- videos
- 167
- transcribed
- 340k
- comments
Channel orientations
Most viewed
- harryjsisson18.9M
- Breaking Points8.7M
- The Joe Rogan Experience4.1M
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.
- Cadence
- every 6 h, full listing every week
- Priority
- the last seven days first
02 · Extract
The video, its metadata and its comments are extracted; the audience is measured again at day 1, 7 and 30. A removal is recorded with its reason when the platform gives one, and a transcribed video keeps its record.
- Tools
- yt-dlp, RSS feeds, platform APIs
- Snapshots
- day 1, 7, 30, then monthly
03 · Transcribe
The voice is isolated from the music (Demucs), speakers told apart without being identified (pyannote), then Whisper transcribes each speaking turn in the spoken language, detected by windows. Turns are cut into sentences (SaT).
- Models
- Demucs, pyannote 3.1, Whisper large-v3-turbo, SaT
- Languages
- French and English, segment by segment
04 · Classify
Each sentence is classified as political or not by a classifier trained on human annotations, then assigned to nine themes by nine binary classifiers. Their reliability (F1, checked precision) is published.
- Models
- CamemBERTav2, one per label
- Measure
- mean share per video when orientations are compared
05 · The people named
The public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries of a closed list are recognised in the sentences by checked patterns and counted video by video. A private person named in a video is never counted.
- List
- entries
- Guard
- named entities (GLiNER) to set aside places and organisations
06 · Summarise
A local language model writes for each video of the week a record in French and English: title, summary, claims and their speakers, public figures named. The record is checked against the transcript; a name that could be a private person’s holds it back. The records feed the week’s synthesis and the arguments by theme.
- Model
- Gemma 4 31B, on the project’s computers
- Guard
- names checked against the closed list
The method in full · The methods paper (PDF) · Cite the project
The team
Three researchers
Tristan Boursier
Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead
Sciences Po Paris · Université du Québec en Outaouais
Antoine Lemor
Postdoctoral researcher · co-lead
Université de Sherbrooke · CIRST · RFICS
Arnaud Miranda
Research collaborator
CEVIPOF · Sciences Po Paris
The team and the affiliations · Write to us · Cite the project