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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.

126
tracked channels
70.8k
tracked videos
29.2k
transcribed videos
4M
classified sentences
12.8M
comments
2.4k
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.

343
videos published
322
transcribed
199
records
120
hours of speech
15.1M
views
The synthesis of the week
France · 29 September – 5 October 2026
Period
The synthesis proposed by our local model · last 7 days

Debates on Jordan Bardella's writings, education, and security in France

Content focuses on Mediapart's revelations regarding writings attributed to Jordan Bardella. Left-wing channels assert the authenticity of antisemitic and conspiracy-theory messages, analyzing the use of a communicational "showcase" to hide radical convictions. Conversely, some left-wing sources mention manipulation or "barbouserie," while Le Monde is accused by the left of favoring the demonization-reduction of the Rassemblement National.

Educational and social issues divide orientations. Both left-wing and far-right channels denounce the lack of resources and teachers, although the far-right attributes obstacles in research on Arab-Muslim slavery to the influence of the far-left. Regarding security, the far-right highlights rising delinquency in Creuse and the breach of the social contract. The left analyzes riots as a class struggle and denounces police violence against high school students and suburb residents.

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 199 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.

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 14.3%
  2. Equality and inequality 9.2%
  3. Environment 5.9%
  4. Progress 5.7%
  5. Distrust of the state 5.7%
  6. Democracy 5.4%
  7. Tradition 5.4%
  8. Technology 3.4%
  9. Immigration 2.8%

October 2026: mean over 64 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 933
  2. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 678
  3. Emmanuel Macron 560
  4. Marine Le Pen 549
  5. Donald Trump 258
  6. The Pope 257

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
Gone from the platforms… All
  1. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
  2. ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026
  3. Street interview in Châtelet on ecology and its political affiliationVA Plus · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
  4. Critique of Left-Wing Feminism and Debate on Immigration and ViolenceLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026

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

Latest transcripts1 h ago
Updated every hour; the last seven days, recomputed every day. The collection figures are in the counter, bottom left.
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