Pluribus AI 2024 Election Autopsy

Study Statistics

The study, in numbers.

98 channels. 203 videos. 258.5 hours of commentary. 118M views. 8,844 quotes, clustered into 126 themes. Twelve at the top — the rest are how the top twelve break down.

Overview

Channels
98
17 far-left · 20 left · 24 center · 9 right · 19 far-right · 9 unknown
Videos
203
Quotes
8,844
Themes
126
12 at the top level
Total reach
118M
views
Likes
2.27M
Comments
355K
Hours of content
258.5

Channels

Who's in the room — sliced by audience size and where they sit on the spectrum.

Channels · Political leaning

The study, spectrum-wide

Share of channels at every stop on the spectrum, far left to far right.

19.1%
22.5%
27.0%
10.1%
21.3%
Far LeftLeftCenterRightFar Right
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 98 channels As of 2024 election cycle

Channels · Audience size

The study, by audience tier

Who's tiny, who's mega, and how that maps onto the spectrum.

  • Far Left
  • Left
  • Center
  • Right
  • Far Right
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 98 channels As of 2024 election cycle

Channels · Top voices by spectrum

Top voices, left to right

The biggest audiences in each cohort. Ranked by total views, no thumb on the scale.

Top voices on the left

  1. The Daily Show
    Views
    20.6M
    Videos
    5
    Quotes
    40
  2. MSNBC
    Views
    13.6M
    Videos
    20
    Quotes
    473
  3. Brian Tyler Cohen
    Views
    7.6M
    Videos
    5
    Quotes
    766
  4. Pod Save America
    Views
    2.2M
    Videos
    4
    Quotes
    203
  5. The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
    Views
    511K
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    31

Top voices in the center

  1. LastWeekTonight
    Views
    29.0M
    Videos
    7
    Quotes
    46
  2. PA Election HQ
    Views
    5.6M
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    572
  3. CNN
    @CNN
    Views
    1.5M
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    4
  4. T
    Think School
    Views
    1.4M
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    0
  5. PBS NewsHour
    Views
    271K
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    232

Top voices on the right

  1. Fox News
    Views
    14.4M
    Videos
    4
    Quotes
    241
  2. The Daily Wire
    Views
    3.3M
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    686
  3. Ben Shapiro
    Views
    2.8M
    Videos
    2
    Quotes
    544
  4. Megyn Kelly
    Views
    1.9M
    Videos
    2
    Quotes
    174
  5. BASED LIFE GURU
    Views
    1.3M
    Videos
    1
    Quotes
    28
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 98 channels · 203 videos As of 2024 election cycle

Videos

When the commentary went up, how long it ran, and which videos owned the conversation.

Videos · Publishing timeline

The publishing tempo

Daily video output, stacked by political leaning. The line on top is total views per day — the audience volume keeping pace with, or breaking from, the publishing tempo.

Videos
Total views
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 203 videos As of 2024 election cycle

Videos · Length distribution

Videos by length

Shorts, standard uploads, long-form. How the study breaks down by format.

  1. Shorts10.5%
  2. 1–10m11757.6%
  3. 10–30m00.0%
  4. 30–60m7436.5%
  5. 60m+ / Live115.4%
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 203 videos As of 2024 election cycle

Where videos came from

101 from small channels (<10K) · 19 medium · 14 large · 69 mega (1M+).

Videos · Top by views

What got watched

The six videos that owned the most attention across the study.

  1. Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
    LastWeekTonight
    Views
    13,791,349
    Likes
    196,717
    Comments
    13,995
  2. Elon Musk and DOGE team give behind the scenes look at their mission
    Fox News
    Views
    11,049,087
    Likes
    191,403
    Comments
    31,996
  3. Jon Stewart on Trump’s Inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi Salute | The Daily Show
    The Daily Show
    Views
    10,443,695
    Likes
    239,413
    Comments
    24,566
  4. Trump’s Reelection: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
    LastWeekTonight
    Views
    8,473,613
    Likes
    173,502
    Comments
    23,812
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com Top 6 of 203 videos As of 2024 election cycle

Engagement

Daily views, likes, and comments, Far Left to Far Right. The skew tells you who actually showed up — not who got covered.

Engagement · Daily by spectrum

Who showed up

Views, likes, comments — daily, each stacked across the five-stop spectrum. Volume tells one story. The lean of the volume tells another.

Views

Total
106,912,288
Max
13,791,349
Avg
581,045
Median
22,163
ViewsViews per day

Likes

Total
2,001,804
Max
239,413
Avg
10,879
Median
861
LikesLikes per day

Comments

Total
319,110
Max
31,996
Avg
1,734
Median
107
CommentsComments per day
pluribus / 2024autopsy.com 118M views · 2.27M likes · 355K comments As of 2024 election cycle