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 · 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.

844
videos published
652
transcribed
395
records
213
hours of speech
94.8M
views
The synthesis of the week
France, Quebec and United States · 30 September – 6 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Accusations against Jordan Bardella and 2026 Quebec Elections

Antisemitic writings are attributed to Jordan Bardella according to Mediapart. The elected official denies these claims. OMERTA links these remarks to Alain Soral, while Psyhodelik considers the official's defense strategy inconsistent, while noting that technical evidence based on HTML files is potentially modifiable. Histoires Crépues considers that these accusations of racism serve to fracture the French political spectrum.

Security and school tensions

The security and school situation is the subject of opposing debates. Vincent Lapierre reports a rise in delinquency and vandalism in Creuse, attributing this phenomenon to immigrants and deploring the breach of the social contract. La Sanction advocates for a regime inspired by Nayib Bukele and argues that student movements are instrumentalized by LFI. Conversely, BLAST denounces school insalubrity and analyzes riots as a response to social domination. Histoires Crépues adds that the myth of meritocracy masks material inequalities between high schools. Regarding blockades, Vincent Lapierre denounces violence that would discredit the demands, while BLAST and Le souffle de l'info link the wearing of the veil to professional discrimination. VA Plus and Boulevard Voltaire respectively mention the origin of acts and the visibility of religious celebrations in public space. Finally, Frontières reports a meeting between Sarah Knafo and citizens in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

Economy and social relations

On the economic and social level, Yomi Denzel considers rote learning useless in the face of AI, while Kroc Blanc considers degrees obsolete. PaduTeam claims that overexploitation makes salaried employment unbearable and criticizes the information on rights during police custody. Simultaneously, Sana Nova describes the Pink October operation as a scam, a view shared by Mediapart which sees it as marketing. Internationally, Paroles D'Honneur describes the situation in Yemen as a genocide, while OMERTA denounces a technocratic coup during the sale of Alstom and alleges a false flag operation in Kramatorsk.

Quebec elections and political life

The 2026 Quebec elections provoke various analyses. Actualité Politique Du Québec reports the PQ's proposals on freezing elected officials' salaries and lowering gas taxes, as well as PLQ criticisms regarding Éric Duhaime's alleged use of AI. Theovox tv considers the PQ's minority government fragile and links the rise of the PCQ to the rejection of progressivism. NLB - FreedomNews reports that the CAQ compares the PCQ to Donald Trump and suggests that free Bixi bikes would benefit Québec solidaire. For his part, the Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale denounces a formal notice from Élections Québec, which he describes as an abusive recourse that caused the onset of cancer.

Immigration and society

Immigration and health are also central to discussions. NLB - FreedomNews claims that immigration aims to influence votes and attributes the economic collapse to liberal migration policy. Actualité Politique Du Québec reports an exchange justifying the term "fake refugees" by a request acceptance rate of 63%. Maxime Ouimet advocates for the relocation of companies to the United States, considering that Quebec is no longer viable for families. On the health front, Hugo Lecavalier notes that parties prioritize prevention, although this approach may be perceived as a control tool. Actualité Politique Du Québec alleges that Health Canada's independence is compromised by the CropLife lobby.

AI and human relations

The impact of technology and customs is evolving. Maxime Ouimet argues that AI will enrich elites, while Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur fears it will escape human control. NLB - FreedomNews describes Emmanuel Macron as a "pathological liar" regarding Brexit. Socially, Camron Diffusion claims that female celibacy is a choice as women target the top tier, while Le Verbe médias explains the decline in sexual activity among Generation Z by anxiety and financial obstacles, while noting that married and practicing couples have a more satisfying sex life. Finally, Action Vitale considers that evidence of American interference in Quebec elections is weak.

Donald Trump and US economy

In the United States, Donald Trump's financial promises, notably the granting of 5,000 dollars to adult citizens, are contested. Brian Tyler Cohen calls them a "bribe" and MeidasTouch considers them lying and inflationary. MeidasTouch also alleges Russian funding of the White House ballroom and mentions Trump's cognitive decline. On the economy, Brian Tyler Cohen links the slowdown to Trump's tariffs, while Ben Shapiro attributes inflation to state interventionism and criticizes France's excessive welfare state. Legal AF reports a mobilization for vote protection, claiming that Trump and the Republicans will attempt to interfere with the ballot.

Geopolitics and conflicts

International tensions occupy a major place. PowerfulJRE denounces the injustice in Gaza and American funding of Israel. Ben Shapiro reports an attempted hijacking of a flight to Tel Aviv and argues that Iran uses terrorism to push the United States toward surrender. Xaviaer describes this attack on the Flydubai flight as an act of terrorism. Breaking Points claims that the Pentagon lied about a bombed site in Minab to cover up a war crime. Finally, tuckercarlson claims that the Treaty of Versailles justified Hitler's invasion of Poland.

Culture and political influence

The cultural sphere is also politicized. Harryjsisson considers Zach Bryan's wearing of a pro-Palestinian t-shirt an affront to Robert Kraft and describes some country artists as "brainwashed liberal snowflakes." Hasan Piker claims that American foreign policy has destabilized the world and argues that some Democrats are attempting to manipulate opinion to make people hate him. Ben Shapiro, moreover, contests the validity of a collective rape complaint at Cornell University.

Summary generated by our model on 6 October 2026 at 19:10 from the 388 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 395 records: Institutions and democracy (19%), Economy and labour (14%), 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.

United States292 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. Equality and inequality 12.6%
  2. Authority 11.1%
  3. Democracy 9.1%
  4. Tradition 7.8%
  5. Distrust of the state 6.1%
  6. Progress 5.6%
  7. Technology 5.6%
  8. Environment 3.7%
  9. Immigration 1.6%

Mean over 134 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
  1. Donald Trump 3,292
  2. Jordan Bardella 1,087
  3. Emmanuel Macron 742
  4. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 783
  5. Marine Le Pen 635
  6. Jeffrey Epstein 300

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
Gone from the platforms… All
  1. Cheveux Afros : cette loi va tout changer ? - REACTHistoires Crépues · unavailable, no reason given · 6 October 2026
  2. Commentary on a map of alcohol consumption by countryTAOQAN · 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. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026

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

Latest transcripts11 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, 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.

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