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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

Authority

Political sentences about authority: obedience, order, the use of force against those who break norms.

Reliability of the classifier 0.87F1 0.70checked 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.

190
political sentences on the theme: 34
sentences read

Waiting for our local model

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

The sample is ready: 34 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot tonight at 00:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video

Far right 6.0% 15 videos
Manosphere 2.7% 2 videos
Conspiracism 1.6% 3 videos
Culture 2.8% 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 92% 175 sentences
Manosphere 2% 3 sentences
Conspiracism 5% 10 sentences
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.

« Les policiers sont très agressifs contre le peuple. Mais contre les judiciaires, sinon ils les encouragent. »
« Ils devraient stopper la présidence. qui agit comme commandant en chef des armées. »
« l'annonce du jour, s'il vous plaît. Vous voulez serrer la vis aux criminels. »
« Alors, il n'a pas de frontières. Donc, ça nécessite une autorité centrale et mondiale pour tout »
« Un immeuble qui est en rénovation. Écoute, il y a des policiers qui sont même rentrés dans des conduits de ventilation. »
« Fait que là, imaginez le dispositif de sécurité, c'est du n'importe quoi. Puis là, chaque personne qui va voter dans un bureau de vote a plusieurs bureaux de vote, duquel il y a déjà une liste avec duquel il y a déjà des bureaux de vote. »

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.

55 2009–2017 15 2018 24 2019 14 2020 745 2021 1.2k 2022 2k 2023 5k 2024 2.9k 2025* 539 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