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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 2,188 sentences 159 videos · 8 channels
  2. Jeffrey Epstein 137 sentences 40 videos · 5 channels
  3. Joe Biden 125 sentences 45 videos · 5 channels
  1. 04 Vladimir Putin 80 21 videos · 1 channels
  2. 05 Benjamin Netanyahu 76 22 videos · 3 channels
  3. 06 Pete Hegseth 70 29 videos · 3 channels
  4. 07 Barack Obama 67 33 videos · 6 channels
  5. 08 Volodymyr Zelensky 62 18 videos · 2 channels
  6. 09 JD Vance 58 21 videos · 5 channels
  7. 10 Marco Rubio 42 23 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 3,154 232 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 211 57 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 158 65 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 126 38 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 108 34 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Barack Obama 100 51 videos · 6 channels
  7. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 84 24 videos · 2 channels
  8. 08 Pete Hegseth 81 35 videos · 4 channels
  9. 09 JD Vance 71 27 videos · 5 channels
  10. 10 Marco Rubio 67 31 videos · 5 channels
Parties, last thirty days
  1. 01 Parti républicain 556 119 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 369 104 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump3,154 Left 88%Culture 10%
Jeffrey Epstein211 Left 85%Culture 13%
Joe Biden158 Left 84%Culture 11%
Benjamin Netanyahu126 Left 76%Culture 20%
Barack Obama100 Left 80%Culture 16%
Pete Hegseth81 Left 96%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump3,154 0%2%88%10%
Joe Biden158 5%84%11%
Barack Obama100 4%80%16%
Pete Hegseth81 1%96%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 78

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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