One inbox for every page, Facebook and Instagram together, each comment tagged by what it is.
See it workOne comment: open its menu and choose Delete. You can delete your own comments anywhere and anyone's on your posts, Page and ads. Hundreds across posts and ads: paste the link into CommentWatchDog, filter, delete in bulk.
Delete removes the comment for everyone and cannot be undone. Hide keeps it for the author and their friends. Turning comments off hides all of them until you turn them back on. Instagram lets you select several comments on your own post; Facebook deletes one at a time. Read: how to delete spam comments on Facebook ads, one and in bulk.
| What is compared | CommentWatchDog | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| One comment | Its menu, Delete | Its menu, Delete | One click in the inbox |
| Several on one post | One at a time | Select several on your own post | Select all that match, delete |
| Across many posts | By hand | By hand | Post cleanup, any post or ad link |
| On ads | One at a time in Ads Manager | One at a time in Ads Manager | Every ad, by rule or in bulk |
| By rule, as they land | No | No | Yes |
| Undo | No | No | No: deleted is deleted. Hide when in doubt |
Sources: Facebook and Instagram help pages on deleting comments, read on 5 September 2026. Instagram's multi-select works on your own posts.
Meta deletes scam ads by the hundred million and says so. Comments under your posts have no bulk tool on Facebook and a capped one on your own Instagram posts. Here is what a backlog costs at three taps a comment.
What a backlog costs, by hand and in Post cleanup
On the left, one spam comment goes the way Facebook offers: menu, Delete, confirm. On the right, Post cleanup on the same post: filter to links, select all 412, delete, and watch the counter.
Spam, scams and abuse are deleted the moment they land. Everything else waits for you, in one inbox.
Every link, shortened or not, and whatever it is selling.
Every link, on every post and adOff: your customers see all of these.
Account recovery, crypto, giveaways, "ask me how", recognised by pattern.
Read by AI: the pattern, not just the wordsOff: your customers see all of these.
Insults, slurs and threats, in any language, any spelling.
Hidden, not deleted: an honest opinion gets a replyOff: your customers see all of these.
The post loads with every comment and reply. Filter to links, a word or a rule, select all that match, delete. The banner counts what left.
Delete or hide? Hide for negativity you may answer; delete for spam, scams and abuse. What hiding does on Facebook.
You connect and pick what gets deleted. New comments are handled as they land; Post cleanup handles what was already there.
Sign in with Facebook and pick the Pages and Instagram accounts.
No code, no passwords shared.
Spam, scams, abuse. Delete on sight; hide the rest.
Add your own topics in plain words.
New comments are handled as they land. Post cleanup takes care of what was already there.
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Short answers, from the platforms' own pages where the answer is theirs.
Yes, on your own posts, Page posts and ads, on both platforms. Elsewhere you can only hide it from yourself or report it.
Neither platform sends a notification. The comment simply disappears for them too.
Facebook has no bulk delete; turning comments off hides them all. Post cleanup deletes them in bulk after you filter: paste the post link, select all, delete.
On your own post, open the comments, choose Manage comments, select the ones to remove, Delete. Instagram limits how many you can select at once. Post cleanup has no such limit and works on ads.
It is on someone else's post, or your Page role has task access only. Owners and people with Facebook access to the Page can delete.
Hide for negativity you do not want amplified and may reply to; delete for spam, scams, abuse and anything that breaks your policy. Deleted cannot be undone.
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