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Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city.

South Sudan has suffered ethnic violence and has been in a civil war since 2013; as of 2016 it has the second highest score on the Fragile States Index.

Since the outbreak of violence, South Sudanese have called attention to how hate speech has inflamed further violent conflict.

The finding presented on this page is perception of online comments under one South Sudan news on its original webpage and on Facebook. It shows how people react to the same news on different platforms.

Original news webpage

screenshot of the original news

The news was published on 10 July 2016

I selected the news "South Sudan fighting: Gunfire erupts again in Juba" to analyse the comment around this topic. The original post has 11 replies and 2 of them are advertisements. I tried to indentify and categorise them into "offensive", "may be offensive", "neutral", and "not relevant" groups.*

News shared on facebook

screenshot of the same news shared on Facebook

It was posted on Facebook on the same day.

Up until 18 Feb 2017, there are 284 people shared the post on facebook. It showed "157 comments" on Facebook, but in fact there were 122 direct comments and 65 replies to those comments. There are a total of 150 Facebook accounts involved in the discussion. The facebook page also showed that around 1.6K users has clicked the emotion icon under the post. I did the same analysis for the 122 direct comments under the Facebook post, the result is as followed.*

*This analysis may not be accurate as I don't have sufficient knowledge of their culture and language. For more details, please check the end of page for the lists of all the comments used for this analysis

Network map of key figures in South Sudan

friends network map