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)

Archive every video and comment72.2k videos, 13M comments and the audience of 126 channels in three countries, kept even after removal.
Advanced methodsVoice isolated, speakers told apart, transcription in the language spoken: 29.5k videos transcribed with our own tools.
Analyse the content4.3M sentences classified as political or not and by theme, public figures counted, records and syntheses written by our model.
An open, independent platformAn autonomous observatory that runs as a network by connecting several machines together, an open base updated every hour, accessible to everyone through an explorer and an API.

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.

799
videos published: 649
transcribed: 235
records: 218
hours of speech: 104M
views

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

Investigation into Jordan Bardella's writings and AI bill in the United States

France Mediapart reports that antisemitic writings and links to Alain Soral are attributed to Jordan Bardella between 2013 and 2015. The elected official denies authorship of these remarks and denounces a deceptive operation. The channel claims that the Rassemblement National uses diversion to hide the party's original ideology.

Vincent Lapierre documents a rise in delinquency and burned cars in La Souterraine in Creuse. The videographer claims that the State no longer respects the social contract because taxes no longer guarantee security. An interviewee in the report attributes these disturbances to migrants.

GoldenBoy relates his experience during student mobilizations in Saint-Denis and at Paris 8 University. He claims to have been insulted by protesters and validates the police intervention against rioters. The videographer attributes the youth's indiscipline to a failure in parental education and the influence of TikTok.

Quebec Daniel Pilon and his guests react to the increase in fuel prices in Ontario and Quebec. A guest argues that this situation results from a World Economic Forum plan to crush the supply chain by 2030. The channel claims that Donald Trump is manipulated by those controlling prices.

Le Verbe médias discusses a survey on the decline in sexual intercourse frequency among Generation Z in the United States. The debate also addresses Parti Québécois proposals on secularism in primary schools. An interviewee argues that the ban on religious symbols infringes on freedom of conscience.

Camron Diffusion comments on testimonies from women expressing loneliness regarding dating. 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 stripped women of their seduction tools.

United States Breaking Points presents Representative Ro Khanna's bill aiming to ban the recursive self-improvement of artificial intelligence. The lawmaker advocates for the creation of an independent security agency to regulate tech billionaires. He also denounces links between certain tech leaders and Jeffrey Epstein.

Summary generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 14:03 from the 104 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

The synthesis proposed by our local model · 4 October 2026

AI Integration in Education and the National Priority Debate

The integration of artificial intelligence in educational and creative fields sparks diverging positions. Yomi Denzel, from a libertarian orientation, argues that schools must evolve to integrate AI through the resolution of concrete problems rather than seeking to limit the use of the tool. From a different perspective, the channel Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS, from an extreme right orientation, claims that AI allows for the production of websites and visual content on a low budget, tools he specifically uses to accompany the release of his album.

Automation and digital marketing strategies

Commercial automation is presented as a lever for growth and profitability. Jonathan Hatchi, from a libertarian orientation, promotes the use of agentic AI to automate customer acquisition, provided that the commercial offer is already validated. He simultaneously criticizes French taxation, specifically VAT, which he considers a hindrance to profitability compared to the American model. In Quebec, Maxime Ouimet, from an extreme right orientation, considers paper marketing obsolete and advocates for a shift to digital for its statistical precision, notably through the promotion of his Floride411.com directory for entrepreneurs in Florida.

Confrontations on national priority and ecology

The concept of national priority is the subject of an ideological clash in a video from the channel Les films à l'arrache, of a cultural orientation. One speaker defines this principle as granting priority aid to French citizens, while another participant describes it as hate speech comparable to the Vichy regime and believes that foreigners should have more rights than French citizens. Regarding the environment, the channel Mediapart, of a left-wing orientation, presents radical ecology as an approach tackling structural causes. It denounces the agricultural orientation law, calling it a dystopia, and accuses the company Syngenta of being responsible for ecocides, while asserting that the management of heatwaves reveals race and class inequalities.

Critiques of feminism and male-female relations

Male-female relationships are analyzed through the lens of an isolation crisis and ideological opposition. In Quebec, the channel Camron Diffusion, from a manosphere orientation, attributes female celibacy to excessive selectivity and claims that feminist ideology has reduced women to their physical appearance by devaluing seduction tools. In France, the channel Sana Nova, also from a manosphere orientation, argues that feminism 2.0 is waging a war against nature with the aim of destroying men. This same channel criticizes the goal of absolute independence advocated by this movement, opposing it with the principles of complementarity and interdependence within the couple.

Public activities and political professionalization

Some videos document field actions and organizational strategies for the right. The channel Frontières, from an extreme right orientation, films Sarah Knafo during meetings with people in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Furthermore, the channel Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS, from an extreme right orientation, recommends that right-wing individuals create their own production companies in order to professionalize their activities.

Summary generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 15:35 from the 11 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 235 records: Institutions and democracy (15%), Economy and labour (14%), Security and justice (12%), Gender and family (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.

United States · 29 September – 5 October 2026

The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

AI Security Agreement and Employment Reports in the United States

A voluntary agreement on artificial intelligence security has been reached between Donald Trump and industry leaders. Donald Trump and Elon Musk argue that self-regulation is preferable as industry players are the most competent. Conversely, Breaking Points denounces a self-policing system and suggests that companies should be prosecuted for illegal data extraction. Meanwhile, Representative Ro Khanna proposes legislation to ban recursive AI self-improvement and create an independent security agency, asserting that tech billionaires cannot self-regulate.

Existential Risks and AI Morality

Bill Gates considers AI to be the most dangerous invention in history and likens AIs to "aliens." Breaking Points supports this position, stating that civil liability and the market are insufficient to regulate existential risks, and advocates for regulation similar to that of the pharmaceutical industry. Regarding morality, Anthropic co-founder Mr. Ola wishes to establish morality within the Claude model and considers that AI could possess a "personhood," thus opposing the position of the Pope. Commentators from Breaking Points claim that this reliance on religious experts proves that creators no longer master their technology and that AI cannot be human due to its lack of mortality.

Socio-economic Impacts and Political Situation

The economic consequences of AI are subject to differing proposals. Bill Gates proposes taxing robots to fund pensions, a position echoed by Breaking Points to compensate for the loss of human social security contributions. Ro Khanna deplores the use of AI to maximize profits in healthcare and suggests that a single-payer system would limit billing abuses. Additionally, Breaking Points reports that the September 2026 employment report presents figures lower than expected, which would make the public more sensitive to corruption allegations against the president. The channel also mentions Donald Trump organizing rallies in Oklahoma and dinners for cryptocurrency investors, which one commentator describes as a lack of ethics.

Summary generated by our model on 5 October 2026 at 17:08 from the 5 following videos:

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.

France412 videos

Quebec114 videos

United States272 videos

The themes, month by month Since 2016

August 2025 – October 2026 · mean share, per video, of the political sentences on each theme

Orientation

Mean over 91 videos in October 2026. Each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking

June – October 2026 · ranking balanced by country, each country counts once

List

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

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

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

Latest transcripts5 min ago

The corpus

Three countries, two platforms, 126 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.

France

87 YouTube · 2 TikTok

89
channels: 48.7k
videos: 22.8k
transcribed: 12.6M
comments

Channel orientations

Far right 39 Left 21 Manosphere 18 Conspiracism 1 Libertarianism 2 Culture 8

Quebec

25 YouTube · 1 TikTok

26
channels: 11.6k
videos: 6.5k
transcribed: 79k
comments

Channel orientations

Far right 15 Manosphere 8 Conspiracism 2 Culture 1

United States

6 YouTube · 5 TikTok

11
channels: 11.9k
videos: 235
transcribed: 345k
comments

Channel orientations

Far right 1 Conservative right 2 Left 6 Culture 2

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