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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.

814
political sentences on the theme · videos mostly from September to October 2026
228
sentences read, two draws
Waiting for our local model

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

The sample is ready: 228 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 5.6% 75 videos
  2. Conservative right 20.0% 1 videos
  3. Left 1.9% 32 videos
  4. Manosphere 3.2% 9 videos
  5. Conspiracism 26.0% 4 videos
  6. Culture 8.0% 2 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 63% 511 sentences
  2. Conservative right 2% 15 sentences
  3. Left 19% 153 sentences
  4. Manosphere 4% 35 sentences
  5. Conspiracism 10% 84 sentences
  6. Libertarianism 1% 6 sentences
  7. Culture 1% 10 sentences

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

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. « comment l'intelligence artificielle pourrait-elle détruire l'humanité les craintes existentielles liées à i a i a pour l'intelligence artificielle et non pas pour il a tremblé ne sont pas nouvelles et existe depuis que ce concept a captivé l'imagination humaine »

  5. « Mais il y a comme l'enjeu que je vois beaucoup là-dedans, je pense que c'est peut-être la première fois avec l'IA qu'il y a comme une confiance qui doit se créer. Est-ce que vraiment on peut faire confiance à un robot? »

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

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. Analysis of Existential Risks and Political Stakes of Artificial Intelligence Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 30 September 2026 · record
  2. Discussion on artificial intelligence and video game development Teddyboy RSA · 30 September 2026 · record
  3. CE PHILOSOPHE MÉDIATIQUE ET INCOMPÉTENT SE FAIT ÉCLATAX PAR CHAT GPT ! (Il a rien compris.) Le Hussard · 4 October 2026
  4. Ce soir Bill Gates et L’I.A. 09 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 10 September 2026
  5. Analysis of Technological, Economic, and Political Issues in North America NLB - FreedomNews · 30 September 2026 · record
  6. Analysis of the deployment of Chinese exoskeletons and military technologies in Ukraine Idriss J. Aberkane, Ph.D x3 · 28 September 2026 · record
  7. 🔴Pourquoi TikTok vous rend con Teddyboy RSA · 28 September 2026
  8. Internet a-t-il DÉTRUIT notre Génération ?? (témoignage de deux jeunes Québécois) Action Vitale · 11 June 2026
  9. Patricia Tardif Coach et nos 5 valeurs fondamentales Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 24 September 2026
  10. Sommes-nous trop surveillés ou pas assez protégés au Québec ? Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 26 September 2026

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.

871 2009–2017* 344 2018 1k 2019 2.8k 2020 6.2k 2021 8.5k 2022 9.8k 2023 13.1k 2024 10.6k 2025* 4.1k 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