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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

Distrust of the state

Political sentences expressing libertarian ideas or distrust of the state, public services, taxation or norms.

Reliability of the classifier 0.90F1 0.65checked 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.

432
political sentences on the theme
60
sentences read
Gemma 4 31B
read on 5 October 2026 at 14:27
The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 13.0% 17 videos
  2. Manosphere 9.1% 1 videos
  3. Conspiracism 14.6% 3 videos
  4. Culture 7.0% 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 85% 366 sentences
  2. Manosphere 1% 3 sentences
  3. Conspiracism 13% 58 sentences
  4. Culture 1% 5 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 2

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  2. Carried by Far right 1

    « Et après ça, des contrats publics, ce n'est pas à brever, ce sont des contrats pour faire de la job. On a des écoles, on a des routes, on a des transports en commun qui tombent en ruines, on veut les réparer, pas en faisant affaire avec des compagnies étrangères, »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  3. Carried by Far right 1

    « Donc, c'est le contrôle des médias, le contrôle des gouvernements, le contrôle de toutes les institutions. Encore une fois, le COVID a permis de montrer l'ampleur du contrôle déjà établi. »

    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. 🏚️ Tout tombe en ruine au Québec : Duhaime présente son plan pour les infrastructures Actualité Politique Du Québec · 28 September 2026
  2. 🍼 Duhaime attaque la CAQ sur les garderies : 5 000 places menacées ! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 26 September 2026
  3. 🍷 Duhaime défend Mario Pelchat : trop de règles tuent l'agrotourisme! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 27 September 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. The video creator denounces a formal notice from Élections Québec Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 30 September 2026 · record
  6. Presentation of the Conservative Party of Quebec's justice and security plan Actualité Politique Du Québec · 29 September 2026 · record
  7. Presentation of Québec solidaire's proposals for families and AI Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026 · record
  8. Spécial pré-élections Québec - Avec Luc Gervais et Daniel Brisson NLB - FreedomNews · 5 October 2026
  9. Christine Fréchette and Éric Girard warn of the economic risks of a referendum Actualité Politique Du Québec · 3 October 2026 · record
  10. Discussion on rising fuel prices and tensions in the transport sector Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 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.

754 2009–2017 295 2018 310 2019 94 2020 1.6k 2021 1.8k 2022 5.2k 2023 10.6k 2024 6.3k 2025* 1.4k 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