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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

Environment

Political sentences about the environment or ecology, climate, energy, nature or green parties.

Reliability of the classifier 0.96F1 0.90checked 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.

319
political sentences on the theme: 51
sentences read: Gemma 4 31B
read on 5 October 2026

The theme in a typical video

Far right 9.1% 16 videos
Manosphere 0.0% 1 videos
Conspiracism 20.7% 3 videos
Culture 1.4% 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

Far right 84% 269 sentences
Manosphere <1% 1 sentences
Conspiracism 15% 48 sentences
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.

Carried by Conspiracism 1
All the sentences (1)
- « À l'entendre parler, je pense que c'est 10 000 $ de plus par famille de revenus ou des baisses d'impôts. Il n'y a plus de taxes carbone, les taxes sur l'essence. »Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 2 October 2026 ·
Carried by Far right 1Conspiracism 1

« Nos politiciens de l'establishment n'ont également étouffé la productivité par des taxes élevées et par des politiques climatiques hostiles au développement économique. Mais c'est un facteur majeur. »

« Le problème, c'est qu'il flirte beaucoup avec des concepts dits mondialistes. Les fameux changements climatiques, les autos ouvertes, tout ça pour moi, je regarde ça et je mets ça dans la balance, ça j'aime moins ça. »

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.

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.

126 2009–2017 67 2018 101 2019 9 2020 202 2021 1.4k 2022 4.4k 2023 17.7k 2024 8.9k 2025* 908 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