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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 1,782 sentences 157 videos · 8 channels
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 136 sentences 41 videos · 5 channels
  3. Joe Biden 105 sentences 44 videos · 6 channels
  1. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 66 22 videos · 4 channels
  2. 05 Vladimir Putin 65 18 videos · 2 channels
  3. 06 Pete Hegseth 54 21 videos · 4 channels
  4. 07 JD Vance 48 17 videos · 4 channels
  5. 08 Volodymyr Zelensky 46 12 videos · 2 channels
  6. 09 Barack Obama 42 29 videos · 6 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 1,858 166 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 137 42 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 106 45 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 71 23 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 65 18 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Pete Hegseth 55 22 videos · 4 channels
  7. 07 JD Vance 52 18 videos · 4 channels
  8. 08 Volodymyr Zelensky 46 12 videos · 2 channels
  9. 09 Barack Obama 44 30 videos · 6 channels
  10. 10 Zohran Mamdani 41 11 videos · 3 channels
Parties, last thirty days
  1. 01 Parti républicain 375 86 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 229 74 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump1,858 Left 83%Culture 14%
Jeffrey Epstein137 Left 77%Culture 20%
Joe Biden106 Left 80%Culture 12%
Benjamin Netanyahu71 Left 58%Culture 35%
Vladimir Putin65 Left 97%
Pete Hegseth55 Left 95%
JD Vance52 Left 90%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump1,858 0%3%83%14%
Joe Biden106 8%80%12%
Pete Hegseth55 2%95%4%
JD Vance52 8%90%2%

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 72

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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