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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
72.1k
tracked videos
29.5k
transcribed videos
4.2M
classified sentences
13M
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.

711
videos published
624
transcribed
239
records
206
hours of speech
101M
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 published an investigation into writings attributed to Jordan Bardella between 2013 and 2015, described as antisemitic and influenced by Alain Soral. 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" the same channel.

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" the same channel.

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 and Castor Carnassier discuss high school mobilizations, describing them respectively as "fascism" to silence opponents and as "riots" encouraged by a political party.

The synthesis in full and the daily syntheses

Topics of the claims in 182 records: Institutions and democracy (16%), Security and justice (14%), Gender and family (11%), Education and culture (11%).

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 States256 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 12.0%
  2. Equality and inequality 10.0%
  3. Democracy 8.2%
  4. Distrust of the state 6.8%
  5. Environment 5.9%
  6. Progress 5.7%
  7. Technology 5.5%
  8. Tradition 5.4%
  9. Immigration 2.4%

Mean over 83 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 2,379
  2. Jordan Bardella 1,033
  3. Emmanuel Macron 634
  4. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 699
  5. Marine Le Pen 577
  6. Jeffrey Epstein 278

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. FRANCE TRAVAIL : RÉVÉLATIONS SUR UNE AFFAIRE D'ÉTATBLAST, Le souffle de l'info · made private · 4 October 2026
  2. Pourquoi continuer à faire venir des gens qui rejettent nos valeurs?Québec FIER · deleted by its author · 4 October 2026
  3. Video creator's analysis of the geographical and social origins of the radical leftLAPIN DU FUTUR · unavailable, no reason given · 3 October 2026
  4. ADIEU ET PARDONLAPIN DU FUTUR · made private · 3 October 2026

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

Latest transcripts26 min ago
Updated every hour; the last seven days, recomputed every day. The collection figures are in the counter, bottom left.
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