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The whole observatory in one panel

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
63.6k
tracked videos
29.2k
transcribed videos
4M
classified sentences
12.7M
comments
2.4k
vanished videos preserved
Seven days of content on YouTube and TikTok · 28 September to 4 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.

495
videos published
460
transcribed
257
records
165
hours of speech
38.7M
views
The synthesis of the week
United States · 28 September – 4 October 2026
The synthesis proposed by our local model

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The records to readAll the videos

The most viewed videos of the week that have their record, written by our local model; each record opens in a side panel.

Quebec84 videos
United States50 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 11.7%
  2. Environment 8.8%
  3. Democracy 8.6%
  4. Progress 4.6%
  5. Distrust of the state 4.1%
  6. Technology 3.7%
  7. Tradition 3.6%
  8. Equality and inequality 3.2%
  9. Immigration 3.0%

October 2026: mean over 66 videos; 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 750
  2. Jordan Bardella 908
  3. Emmanuel Macron 620
  4. Jean-Luc Mélenchon 669
  5. Marine Le Pen 542
  6. The Pope 268

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 argument of each theme, drawn from the sentences of the last seven days and read again every day
  1. Mass immigration threatens the cultural identity and stability of the countryImmigration · Last 7 days
  2. Elections and voting are essential tools for influencing party funding or powerDemocracy · Last 3 months
  3. Law enforcement officers are targeted by attacks and insults from protesters or youthAuthority · Last 3 months

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. 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

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

Latest transcripts7 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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