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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 1,572 sentences 144 videos · 8 channels
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 128 sentences 37 videos · 5 channels
  3. Joe Biden 94 sentences 40 videos · 6 channels
  1. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 64 20 videos · 4 channels
  2. 05 Vladimir Putin 50 13 videos · 2 channels
  3. 06 Pete Hegseth 47 19 videos · 4 channels
  4. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 45 11 videos · 2 channels
  5. 08 Barack Obama 42 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 1,648 153 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 129 38 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 95 41 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 69 21 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 50 13 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Pete Hegseth 48 20 videos · 4 channels
  7. 07 JD Vance 46 16 videos · 4 channels
  8. 08 Volodymyr Zelensky 45 11 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 352 79 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 204 68 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump1,648 Left 83%Culture 14%
Jeffrey Epstein129 Left 76%Culture 22%
Joe Biden95 Conservative right 8%Left 78%Culture 14%
Benjamin Netanyahu69 Left 57%Culture 36%
Vladimir Putin50 Left 96%
Pete Hegseth48 Left 94%
JD Vance46 Conservative right 9%Left 89%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump1,648 0%3%83%14%
Joe Biden95 8%78%14%
Pete Hegseth48 2%94%4%
JD Vance46 9%89%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 14

Media 6

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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