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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

Technology

Political sentences about technology, technique or innovation, or about tech companies and their leaders.

Reliability of the classifier 0.95F1 0.63checked precision The method
Period
Last 7 days Last 3 months* 2026* 2025* 2024* 2023 2022* 2021* 2020* 2019* 2018* 2009–2017*

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.

521
political sentences on the theme
161
sentences read
Waiting for our local model

Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.

The sample is ready: 161 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot today at 06:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 4.7% 61 videos
  2. Left 1.9% 32 videos
  3. Manosphere 2.9% 8 videos
  4. Conspiracism 16.5% 1 videos
  5. Culture 6.1% 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 54% 279 sentences
  2. Left 29% 153 sentences
  3. Manosphere 6% 33 sentences
  4. Conspiracism 9% 48 sentences
  5. Libertarianism 1% 6 sentences
  6. Culture <1% 2 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.

While the reading is pending

What the videos say, sentence by sentence.

The sentences the classifier ties most clearly to the theme, taken from different orientations and channels; each one comes out of its video, which opens in a side panel.

  1. « Il n'est pas en train d'essayer d'interdire l'IA. On va faire faire des trucs aux élèves avec l'IA. »

  2. « Il a créé le phonographe, l'ampoule électrique commerciale et le premier laboratoire de recherche industrielle. Il a défendu le courant continu contre Tesla et était un libre-penseur déiste critique envers les religions organisées. »

  3. « Pourquoi ? Parce que l'industrie pharmaceutique ne gagne plus d'argent sur les médicaments qui ont été créés depuis longtemps, elle gagne de l'argent surtout sur les médicaments innovants. Donc en fait, les traitements pour le cancer, c'est de plus en plus cher. »

  4. « Pensez-vous que l'IA puisse intéresser l'humain et qu'un traité peut être signé entre les deux parties pour le respect de toutes les races de ce monde ? Je pense que même si ce traité devait être complètement cosmétique et superficiel, il devrait être traité parce qu'il donne un […] »

  5. « voilà, maintenant, il y a l'IA aussi pour préparer des cours, pour que les profs s'éclatent aussi, »

  6. « Tout le monde est blanc parmi les méchants, sauf un, c'est le gentil indien qui est le seul intelligent, l'indien écolo qui lui a tout compris. Autour de la table, il va expliquer que c'est dangereux ce qui se passe, il faut se ressaisir, c'est... »

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. Discussion on artificial intelligence and video game development Teddyboy RSA · 30 September 2026 · record
  2. CE PHILOSOPHE MÉDIATIQUE ET INCOMPÉTENT SE FAIT ÉCLATAX PAR CHAT GPT ! (Il a rien compris.) Le Hussard · 4 October 2026
  3. Analysis of the deployment of Chinese exoskeletons and military technologies in Ukraine Idriss J. Aberkane, Ph.D x3 · 28 September 2026 · record
  4. 🔴Pourquoi TikTok vous rend con Teddyboy RSA · 28 September 2026
  5. Internet a-t-il DÉTRUIT notre Génération ?? (témoignage de deux jeunes Québécois) Action Vitale · 11 June 2026
  6. ELON MUSK EST DEVENU TRILLIONNAIRE... LES FRANÇAIS RÉAGISSENT - EL RAYHAN El Rayhan · 21 June 2026
  7. Meilleurs IA Festival | L’Intégrale des Courts-Métrages + Table Ronde Teddyboy RSA · 19 August 2026
  8. La Chine et l'âge de l'État-civilisation (Zhang Weiwei) Ego Non · 26 August 2026
  9. ECRIT avec l'IA ou RACISME ? L'affaire Thélyson Orélien - Algorithme Histoires Crépues · 24 September 2026
  10. Commentary on Squeezie's support for student movements and urban violence Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS · 3 October 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.

789 2009–2017* 323 2018* 1k 2019* 2.8k 2020* 5.8k 2021* 7.4k 2022* 7.6k 2023 7.6k 2024* 6.1k 2025* 3.4k 2026*
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