---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- my
tags:
- myanmar
- facebook
- news
- social-media
- engagement-prediction
- nlp
pretty_name: Myanmar News Social Media Engagement Dataset
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---
Title:
Myanmar News Social Media Engagement Dataset: A Burmese-Language Corpus of News Posts and User Interactions

Description:
The Myanmar News Social Media Engagement Dataset is a Burmese-language corpus containing news posts collected from Facebook pages of Myanmar and international news organizations. The dataset includes post content together with engagement metrics such as reactions, comments, shares, and total interactions.

The dataset was developed to support research in natural language processing, social media analytics, engagement prediction, popularity forecasting, sentiment analysis, and graph-based deep learning models.

Authors:
Zhao Jin

| Column       | Description                |
| ------------ | -------------------------- |
| source_id    | News source name           |
| pubdate      | Publication date           |
| total_react  | Total reactions received   |
| comments     | Number of comments         |
| shares       | Number of shares           |
| interactions | Total user interactions    |
| text         | News post content          |
| fb_post_link | Original Facebook post URL |


Intended Uses

This dataset can be used for:

News Popularity Prediction, 
Social Media Engagement Prediction, 
Burmese NLP Research, 
Sentiment Analysis, 
Time-Series Forecasting, 
Graph Neural Networks (GCN), 
LSTM-Based Prediction Models, 
Hybrid LSTM-GCN Architectures.

License:
CC BY 4.0

Citation Information:

@dataset{mergui2026myanmarnews,
author = {Zhao Jin},
title = {Myanmar News Social Media Engagement Dataset: A Burmese-Language Corpus of News Posts and User Interactions},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
doi = {10.57967/hf/9226}
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Mergui/Myanmar-News-Dataset}
}