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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 200 sentences 31 videos · 5 channels
  2. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 102 sentences 25 videos · 5 channels
  3. Éric Duhaime 81 sentences 18 videos · 4 channels
  1. 04 Mark Carney 54 16 videos · 4 channels
  2. 05 François Legault 43 17 videos · 4 channels
  3. 06 Elon Musk 18 5 videos · 3 channels
  4. 07 Emmanuel Macron 17 4 videos · 2 channels
  5. 08 Justin Trudeau 12 5 videos · 3 channels
  6. 09 Yves-François Blanchet 8 5 videos · 3 channels
  7. 10 Marine Le Pen 8 4 videos · 3 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 3,028 225 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 194 54 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 150 63 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 106 36 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 104 33 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Barack Obama 98 49 videos · 6 channels
  7. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 83 23 videos · 2 channels
  8. 08 Pete Hegseth 77 32 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 537 115 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 341 100 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump3,028 Left 88%Culture 10%
Jeffrey Epstein194 Left 84%Culture 14%
Joe Biden150 Left 83%Culture 11%
Benjamin Netanyahu106 Left 72%Culture 24%
Barack Obama98 Left 80%Culture 16%
Pete Hegseth77 Left 96%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump3,028 0%2%88%10%
Joe Biden150 5%83%11%
Barack Obama98 4%80%16%
Pete Hegseth77 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 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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