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Public figures named

Who is named, and by whom.

A closed list of 238 public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries, recognised in the transcribed sentences and counted video by video. A private person named in a video is never counted.

The podium of the last seven days transcribed sentences naming them
  1. Donald Trump 1,840 sentences 155 videos · 8 channels
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 115 sentences 40 videos · 5 channels
  3. Joe Biden 100 sentences 42 videos · 6 channels
  1. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 70 23 videos · 4 channels
  2. 05 Vladimir Putin 69 19 videos · 1 channels
  3. 06 Pete Hegseth 60 22 videos · 3 channels
  4. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 52 14 videos · 2 channels
  5. 08 Barack Obama 45 29 videos · 6 channels
  6. 09 JD Vance 42 15 videos · 4 channels
  7. 10 Ben Shapiro 41 11 videos · 1 channels

Transcribed sentences of the videos published in the last seven days that name the person. The bar gives the channel orientation. Recent videos take a few days to be transcribed.

People, last thirty days
  1. 01 Donald Trump 2,462 199 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 144 48 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 116 53 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Vladimir Putin 90 28 videos · 2 channels
  5. 05 Benjamin Netanyahu 85 29 videos · 5 channels
  6. 06 Volodymyr Zelensky 68 18 videos · 2 channels
  7. 07 Barack Obama 66 40 videos · 6 channels
  8. 08 Pete Hegseth 64 26 videos · 4 channels
  9. 09 Marco Rubio 53 25 videos · 5 channels
  10. 10 JD Vance 53 19 videos · 4 channels
Parties, last thirty days
  1. 01 Parti républicain 446 99 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 282 89 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump2,462 Left 87%Culture 11%
Jeffrey Epstein144 Left 78%Culture 19%
Joe Biden116 Left 81%Culture 12%
Vladimir Putin90 Left 98%
Benjamin Netanyahu85 Left 65%Culture 29%
Barack Obama66 Left 73%Culture 21%
Pete Hegseth64 Left 95%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump2,462 0%2%87%11%
Joe Biden116 7%81%12%
Barack Obama66 6%73%21%
Pete Hegseth64 2%95%3%

Each row adds up to 100% and gives the share of the sentences naming the person spoken on the channels of each orientation. Corpus sizes weigh in. The far right and the left have the most channels.

Same measure over thirty days. Each record details the months, the orientations and the channels. Public figures over time

The list

Every entry, by category.

People 75

Parties 2

Organisations 15

Media 7

Countries and territories 9

Number of videos of the last twelve months whose transcript names the entry at least once. Full counts, by month and by orientation, are on each record.

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