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The week in brief, the records to read, the themes month by month, the public figures named, the arguments and the removals, for the whole corpus or one country; then each tool, to go further.

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48.6k
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22.8k
transcribed videos
3.5M
classified sentences
12.6M
comments
2.3k
vanished videos preserved
Seven days of content on YouTube and TikTok · 29 September to 5 October 2026

Political YouTube and TikTok, the last week in brief

The whole observatory condensed: the synthesis of the last seven days, the records to read, the themes, the public figures named, the arguments and the removals; each cell has its country, the switch below sets the whole panel.

354
videos published
336
transcribed
195
records
126
hours of speech
15.4M
views
The synthesis of the week
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 on 5 October 2026 at 04:00 from the 14 following videos:

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 195 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.

France354 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 13.9%
  2. Equality and inequality 11.4%
  3. Progress 6.6%
  4. Environment 6.5%
  5. Tradition 5.9%
  6. Democracy 5.4%
  7. Distrust of the state 5.3%
  8. Technology 3.6%
  9. Immigration 2.8%

October 2026: mean over 69 videos; each video counts once. Since 2016

The public figures most named The ranking
June – October 2026 · transcribed sentences naming them
List
  1. Jordan Bardella 1,030
  2. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 695
  3. Marine Le Pen 573
  4. Emmanuel Macron 568
  5. The Pope 264
  6. Donald Trump 258

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
  1. The police commit violence and misconduct during their interventionsAuthority · Last 7 days
  2. France is a Christian land and must preserve this religious heritageTradition · Last 7 days
  3. Current society is in cultural and intellectual declineProgress · Last 7 days
  4. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
  5. Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
  6. Rioters and violent protesters must be severely sanctionedAuthority · Last 7 days
  7. Feminism and wokism deconstruct traditional social and family structuresTradition · Last 7 days
  8. 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

Gone from the platforms… All
  1. FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
  2. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
  3. ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
  4. 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 transcripts2 h ago
Updated every hour; the last seven days, recomputed every day. The collection figures are in the counter, bottom left.
The tools

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The week in review The synthesis, the reviews by theme, the videos that buzz, the people named and the synthesis of each day. Public figures Who is named, by whom, month after month; one record per public figure. Themes and arguments The arguments, the quotes and the periods, theme by theme. Trends Volumes, politicisation, themes, people and comments since 2016. Channels Every tracked channel, its orientation, its country, its figures. Search In the titles and the transcribed speech, by words or by meaning. Vanished videos The removals noticed, their reason and their records.
ImmigrationDemocracyAuthorityTraditionProgressEquality and inequalityEnvironmentTechnologyDistrust of the state
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