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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 or the use of force against those who break norms.

Reliability of the classifier 0.87F1 0.70checked precision The method
Period

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.

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political sentences on the theme
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sentences read
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read on 5 October 2026 at 13:18
The theme in a typical video

Not enough classified videos over the period.

Where the theme’s sentences come from

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 Conservative right 1

    « It proposes abolishing the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. It also describes the abolition of the police and prison system as a goal. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

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