Observatory

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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.

Classifier: F1 0.95 Checked precision 0.63 How reliable are the classifiers?

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.

290
political sentences on the theme: 65
sentences read

Waiting for our local model

The project’s computers are chewing through the transcripts: the result will show up here as soon as it is ready.

The sample is ready: 65 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 9.1% 15 videos
Manosphere 4.2% 2 videos
Conspiracism 29.2% 3 videos
Culture 9.9% 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%Manosphere 1%Conspiracism 12%Culture 3%

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.

Representative sentences, not grouped

While the reading is pending, here are the sentences the classifier ties most clearly to the theme, taken from different orientations and channels.

« D'autres affirment que IA est véritablement dangereuse et représente une menace réelle et identifiable pour l'humanité indépendamment de tout intérêt financier. Pour les dirigeants du secteur, pensez-vous que l'IA va prendre le contrôle, mes amis? »

« On n'est pas capable de se battre contre un cycle de 10 à 15 ans. Et là, c'est le cycle de la quatrième révolution industrielle. »

« 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? »

« Parce qu'elles se font ghoster, alors que c'est elles qui sont censées être la donrée rare, c'est elles qui se font ghoster. Et ça nous dit comment les femmes utilisent les applis. D'accord ? »

« connaître et mettre à profit cette techno. Carney a annoncé le lancement d'un nouveau conseil qui va formuler des conseils indépendants et pratiques à l'égard de la transformation du Canada en matière d'IA. »

« Avec le génie des Québécois, nous voulons créer ici une véritable révolution industrielle. Lundi, vous déciderez de l'avenir de nos enfants. »

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.

82 2009–2017 21 2018 11 2019 14 2020 410 2021 1.2k 2022 2.2k 2023 5.9k 2024 4.5k 2025* 760 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