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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 2,209 sentences 174 videos · 8 channels
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 120 sentences 42 videos · 5 channels
  3. Joe Biden 119 sentences 48 videos · 6 channels
  1. 04 Vladimir Putin 80 23 videos · 1 channels
  2. 05 Benjamin Netanyahu 76 26 videos · 4 channels
  3. 06 Pete Hegseth 69 27 videos · 3 channels
  4. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 66 18 videos · 2 channels
  5. 08 Barack Obama 64 34 videos · 6 channels
  6. 09 JD Vance 50 19 videos · 5 channels
  7. 10 Marco Rubio 47 26 videos · 4 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 2,851 219 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 150 51 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 139 60 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 103 34 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 101 32 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Barack Obama 85 45 videos · 6 channels
  7. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 82 22 videos · 2 channels
  8. 08 Pete Hegseth 73 31 videos · 4 channels
  9. 09 Marco Rubio 61 29 videos · 5 channels
  10. 10 JD Vance 61 23 videos · 5 channels
Parties, last thirty days
  1. 01 Parti républicain 502 110 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 313 95 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump2,851 Left 87%Culture 11%
Jeffrey Epstein150 Left 79%Culture 19%
Joe Biden139 Left 82%Culture 12%
Benjamin Netanyahu103 Left 71%Culture 24%
Barack Obama85 Left 76%Culture 19%
Pete Hegseth73 Left 96%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump2,851 0%2%87%11%
Joe Biden139 6%82%12%
Barack Obama85 5%76%19%
Pete Hegseth73 1%96%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 77

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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