Observatory
YOUPOL / ExploreThemes 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.
Distrust of the state
Political sentences expressing libertarian ideas or distrust of the state, public services, taxation or norms.
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.
- 33
- political sentences on the theme
- 4
- sentences read
- 52%
- of the period’s YouTube videos transcribed
Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.
The sample is ready: 4 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot today at 06:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.
- Conservative right 42.7% 1 videos
Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.
- Conservative right 100% 33 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.
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.
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« The Horseshoe Right supports targeted government controls over trade, technology, finance, employment, and then says all this is necessary because otherwise free markets will destroy you. Both of these movements increasingly ask voters to trust government with more discretionary […] »
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« Private property then reproduces alienation. The DSA says the same thing when they say that ordinary workplace reforms aren't enough and that workers... »
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« If, God forbid, something were to happen to you, you need to make sure that your family is taken care of. And we live in a free society, which means you can get the life insurance you need. »
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.
43%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 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.
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