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Comment moderation for Facebook and Instagram ads and posts: how the platforms behave, what spam and damaging comments cost, and how to keep comments clean.
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Facebook's profanity filter: what it hides, the four word controls, and what none of them catch
The Page toggle, the 1,000-keyword list with free variations, Moderation Assist's eight-language criterion and the Live filter, plus what my own rules caught.
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Comments on Facebook Live: the eight chat settings, the bans, and why viewers cannot comment
No off switch, but eight chat settings down to near silence, keywords marked as spam, a 15-minute suspension and three bans, and what a blocked viewer sees.
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How to see and manage comments on Instagram ads, and why some advertisers cannot
Ads Manager's pop-up with Hide and Delete, the app, Business Suite's inbox, and the connected-profile requirement that hides an ad's comments from you.
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Can you turn off comments on Instagram ads? Not with a switch, but there is a route
No documented off switch, in Meta's words. Instead: boost a post with commenting off or limited, Hidden Words on ads, and hide or delete from Ads Manager.
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How to see and manage comments on Facebook ads: the four places they live
Ads Manager, the Page post, Business Suite's inbox and notifications: what you can do in each, what Meta says you cannot, and a month of my own ad comments.
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Hate and rude comments on Facebook: what Meta removes, what a Page does
Where Meta's line falls for a business Page, the profanity filter in eight languages, hide, report and block in Facebook's words, and the slur my rules missed.
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How to turn off comments on a Facebook Page: one post at a time, and the alternatives
No Page-wide switch exists. The per-post Who can comment menu down to tagged people only, the pro-mode profile setting, and the word-list trick with its cost.
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Comments with links on Facebook and Instagram: what they are and how to hide every one
Seven weeks of links under my ads by domain, why Facebook hides some itself, the two Moderation Assist link criteria, Instagram's missing switch, and the rule.
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How to unhide comments on Facebook, whichever of the four things hid them
You hid it, Moderation Assist hid it, your filter hid it, or Facebook marked it as spam. The way back from each in Facebook's words, plus the iPhone dead end.
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Can you turn off comments on Facebook ads? For most advertisers, no
Meta has tested an off switch since October 2024 for a few businesses, and its help pages document none. What Meta says, where to look, what to do instead.
