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Themes and arguments.

The arguments put forward or contested in the videos, grouped by theme and by period. Our local model draws them from a sample of political sentences, then they are checked against the sentences; each quote links back to its video.

The theme

Environment

Political sentences about the environment or ecology: climate, energy, nature, green parties.

Reliability of the classifier 0.96F1 0.90checked precision The method
Period
Last 7 days Last 3 months* 2026* 2025* 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2009–2017

The last seven days are read again every day. * provisional: part of the period’s videos are still to be transcribed. Greyed out: reading pending.

362
political sentences on the theme
54
sentences read
Waiting for our local model

Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.

The sample is ready: 54 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot tonight at 00:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 10.3% 15 videos
  2. Manosphere 0.0% 2 videos
  3. Conspiracism 20.7% 3 videos
  4. Culture 1.4% 1 videos

Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.

Where the theme’s sentences come from
  1. Far right 86% 312 sentences
  2. Manosphere <1% 1 sentences
  3. Conspiracism 13% 48 sentences
  4. Culture <1% 1 sentences

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus: it describes the channel selection, not the weight each side gives the theme.

Arguments come from a sample shared by the territories. Only excerpts from channels in the selected country and their associated arguments are kept here; counts are recalculated.

While the reading is pending

What the videos say, sentence by sentence.

The sentences the classifier ties most clearly to the theme, taken from different orientations and channels; each one comes out of its video, which opens in a side panel.

  1. « Je n'entends pas aucun parti, je dis bien aucun parti actuellement, dire qu'on va sortir de la bourse de carbone. Alors, quand quelqu'un provincial dit qu'on ne veut plus de taxes de carbone, c'est correct, mais ça c'est fédéral la taxe de carbone. »

  2. « Est-ce que le fait de couper la taxe sur le carbone, c'est bon? La réponse est oui, parce que c'est bidon, les histoires de changement climatique, puis de mettre des taxes quand tu es tout seul dans le monde quasiment à mettre des taxes, du coup en Amérique du Nord, à mettre des […] »

  3. « Qu'est-ce que le système, qu'est-ce que les élites doivent mettre en place? C'est réduire la consommation énergétique de monsieur, madame, tout le monde qui deviennent des inutiles. »

  4. « Ça veut dire plus d'énergie. and less emissions for the planet. »

  5. « Puis lui, sa job, c'est que dans les planifications énergétiques du Québec, que je vous lis, c'est quoi ils veulent faire avec les bioénergies et le gaz naturel dans les 25 prochaines années à venir? Ça prend un du M, qui lui a le rôle du méchant que les autres veulent pas […] »

  6. « Donc là, on peut donner des subventions, mais avec des critères. précis, environnementaux, sociaux, de maintien d'emploi. »

The videos

Where the theme weighs most.

Videos of the last four months, ranked by the share of their political sentences the classifier assigns to the theme; each record opens in a side panel.

  1. Climat: Quand la peur devient un instrument politique | LE PANEL 30 sept. 2026 Theovox tv · 1 October 2026
  2. Discussion on spiritual hypnosis and the 2026 fuel price crisis Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 30 September 2026 · record
  3. 💧 PSPP promet 85 M$ pour l'eau potable dans Arthabaska-L'Érable! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026
  4. Analysis of political current events in Quebec, the United States, and the United Kingdom NLB - FreedomNews · 28 September 2026 · record
  5. Saint François d'Assise fête 800 ans | ON N'EST PAS DU MONDE - E433 Le Verbe médias · 27 September 2026
  6. 24 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 25 September 2026
  7. FNL ep800 - LA 800ÈME! 2026/09/24 NLB - FreedomNews · 24 September 2026
  8. Ce soir Bill Gates et L’I.A. 09 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 10 September 2026
  9. Presentation of Québec solidaire's proposals for families and the economy Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026 · record
  10. FNL ep801 - Merci! Go vers 1000! Retour sur la semaine NLB - FreedomNews · 25 September 2026

The percentage is the share of the video’s political sentences assigned to the theme (at least 20 political sentences and 5 on the theme).

The periods

The theme, year by year.

Political sentences on the theme by period; click a period to show it. The number also depends on the share of videos transcribed, which varies a lot from year to year.

126 2009–2017 67 2018 101 2019 9 2020 202 2021 1.4k 2022 4.4k 2023 17.6k 2024 8.9k 2025* 839 2026*
How the arguments are drawn

The theme’s political sentences are drawn at random by period, with quotas per orientation and a cap per channel and per video. Our local model reads the sentences without knowing their channel or orientation, groups those making the same argument, separates those reporting it in order to contest it and sets aside those off the theme. Orientation shares and quotes come from the sentences, never from the model. The last seven days are read again every day.

The detail in the method
Project paper