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Themes and arguments.

The arguments put forward or contested in the videos, grouped by theme and by period. Our local model draws them from a sample of political sentences, then they are checked against the sentences; each quote links back to its video.

The theme

Democracy

Political sentences about democracy, as an ideal or as a regime, about elections, institutions or representation.

Reliability of the classifier 0.88F1 0.90checked precision The method
Period

The last seven days are read again every day. * provisional, part of the period’s videos are still to be transcribed. Greyed out, reading pending.

1,693
political sentences on the theme
196
sentences read
Gemma 4 31B
read on 5 October 2026 at 13:13
The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 7.5% 71 videos
  2. Left 7.7% 32 videos
  3. Manosphere 2.3% 9 videos
  4. Conspiracism 5.8% 1 videos
  5. Culture 3.0% 1 videos

Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.

Where the theme’s sentences come from
  1. Far right 47% 798 sentences
  2. Left 50% 841 sentences
  3. Manosphere 2% 36 sentences
  4. Conspiracism 1% 17 sentences
  5. Culture <1% 1 sentences

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus. It describes the channel selection, not the weight each side gives the theme.

Arguments come from a sample shared by the territories. Only excerpts from channels in the selected country and their associated arguments are kept here; counts are recalculated.

The arguments

What is put forward, and by whom.

Each card opens on all its sentences; each quote links back to its video.

  1. Carried by Far right 3Left 5

    « À la fin... C'est la souveraineté du peuple qui doit décider. »

    « Mais pourtant, les politiques devraient se dire que c'est un mauvais calcul, parce que s'ils font rien, la population ne va plus voter pour eux. Théoriquement, c'est un peu ça la pression démocratique. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  2. Carried by Left 4

    « La campagne de la présidentielle n'est donc ni plus ni moins qu'un outil offert par les institutions bourgeoises pour diffuser partout le message communiste. »

    « Vraiment c'est le coup parfait pour elle. T'es candidat au pouvoir, t'as besoin d'être anti-système, t'as le truc Mediapart qui représente un peu le système pour ton électorat, qui bute ton adversaire. »

    « Donc c'est là où vraiment les exemples que prend même le Rassemblement national pour dire « la presse, regardez, la presse essaye de… » truquer le jeu présidentiel, le jeu politique, le jeu électoral. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  3. Carried by Left 3

    « Mediapart a déjà été condamné pour diffamation. Ce média est un journal d'extrême gauche composé de fanatiques qui useront de tous les moyens, y compris les plus déloyaux, pour nous empêcher de gagner l'élection présidentielle. »

    « La prétendue investigation s'effondre déjà. Pendant des jours, nos adversaires politiques et des dizaines de médias ont sali le premier parti de France et porté une grave atteinte à mon honneur sur la base de ragots diffusés par un média férocement anti-RN. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

The videos

Where the theme weighs most.

Videos of the last four months, ranked by the share of their political sentences the classifier assigns to the theme; each record opens in a side panel.

  1. Procès Marine Le Pen : Pourquoi les juges l'ont épargnée ? - Michel Onfray Front Populaire · 9 July 2026
  2. Analysis of Pope Leo XIV's visit and comments on French politics Jean Massiet Replay · 29 September 2026 · record
  3. Analysis of French political current events and institutional functioning Jean Massiet Replay · 28 September 2026 · record
  4. J'AI DEMANDÉ AUX FRANÇAIS POURQUOI ILS VOTENT MÉLENCHON... LEURS RÉPONSES SONT HALLUCINANTES El Rayhan · 6 September 2026
  5. Analysis of a poll placing Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential runoff Paroles D'Honneur · 3 October 2026 · record
  6. Critique of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's relationship with his electorate La Sanction · 29 September 2026 · record
  7. Analysis of the Alstom sale inquiry commission with Romain Marleix OMERTA · 3 October 2026 · record
  8. Analysis of the Impact of the Iran Conflict on the US Midterm Elections OMERTA · 1 October 2026 · record
  9. Analysis of the Diesel Price Crisis and the Russian Threat in France Le Fil d'Actu - Officiel · 30 September 2026 · record
  10. Analysis of the political agenda and revelations regarding Jordan Bardella Jean Massiet Replay · 30 September 2026 · record

The percentage is the share of the video’s political sentences assigned to the theme (at least 20 political sentences and 5 on the theme).

The periods

The theme, year by year.

Political sentences on the theme by period; click a period to show it. The number also depends on the share of videos transcribed, which varies a lot from year to year.

How the arguments are drawn

The theme’s political sentences are drawn at random by period, with quotas per orientation and a cap per channel and per video. Our local model reads the sentences without knowing their channel or orientation, groups those making the same argument, separates those reporting it in order to contest it and sets aside those off the theme. Orientation shares and quotes come from the sentences, never from the model. The last seven days are read again every day.

The detail in the method
Project paper