Numerama has selected ten channels on several platforms that address political news and the crucial topics of the coming days.
You do not want to spend your days in front of news channels to understand the program of the candidates? There are alternatives. Initiatives to follow political news have been launched on many platforms, from YouTube to TikTok via Twitch, and are enjoying growing success. Some are already known to the general public, but others deserve a little more attention.
According to the streamers, the proposals, programs and current topics can be analyzed in depth or dealt with briefly from the facts only. The TV format can be boring and painful in the long run, these platforms have the merit of offering a more refreshing way to consume information.
Numerama offers you ten channels to follow for other information during the presidential election period.
The most known
HugoDecrypts
Hugo Travers’ news channel is perhaps one of the best known on French YouTube. Launched in 2015, it now peaks at more than 570,000 subscribers and more than 1.7 million followers on Instagram. What make many traditional media blush. The team of fifteen journalists also works on TikTok, Twitch, Twitter and even Spotify. For the presidential election, HugoDécrypte has launched two specific formats: a first to explain the programs of the candidates in 10 measures and another where he interviews those concerned directly. Obviously everyone is ready to play.
John Massiet
Jean Massiet is one of the precursors of political Twitch. While the platform was mainly intended to broadcast games of video games, this former member of the cabinet of Marisol Touraine (then Minister of Health) takes advantage of the influx of young people on the live streaming site to popularize and explain the policy. . His Twitch channel peaks at over 150,000 subscribers and over 56,600 people follow him on YouTube.
Gaspard G
Gaspard G started early on YouTube, in 2014. His videos are simple and clearly explain political platforms. Only 24 years old, he has already been contacted twice by the government. Jean Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education was interviewed on his channel on high school courses, then Prime Minister Jean Castex, called him in person after a video to challenge the government on the situation of students during the covid crisis.
The originals
Game of roles: the two towers, on Clément Viktorovitch’s channel
FibreTigre is a specialist in interactive fiction on Twitch. Associated with the political scientistClément Viktorovitch, they launched a live role-playing game broadcast on the latter’s Twitch channel where each participant plays a fictitious candidate for the presidential election of 2022. For three hours, the four guests will improvise on the set of radio in response to questions from the presenter & designer of the show. Well-known Youtubers like Joueur du grenier or Antoine Daniel participated in the show.
positive devil
Generally, we do not have the reflex to be interested in the institutions of the Republic, and when one is sufficiently curious, the useful sites can appear boring and complicated to use. On YouTube, Le Diable Positif wants to popularize politics and decision-making bodies in cartoons. The design is inspired by American cartoons and the purpose is also playful and informative. The show debuted in April 2019 and has over 93,600 subscribers today.
Activists
David Dufresne
David Dufresne is known to the general public as a committed journalist. Passed by major media such as Liberation or Mediapart, of which he contributed to the creation, he now works independently and produces documentaries. He maintains a YouTube and Twitch channel where he regularly invites guests to talk about current events.
The news feed
Tatiana Ventôse has made a career in politics in left-wing movements and analyzes topics that make the headlines through the YouTube channel, Le Fil d’Actu. With a team of ten young people, they want to “offer a different reading of the news, far from the continuous flow of information from television channels”. The channel now has more than 131,000 subscribers. Some videos switch to opinion, it’s up to you to make up your own mind.
The tiktokers and tiktokers
TikTok limits the length of a video to ten minutes and usually posted videos are even shorter. The four proposed accounts describe and explain a current event, each in their own way. A good way to follow the presidential election with only the essentials for info.
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