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Hide comments on Facebook before anyone reads them

When you hide a comment on your Page, the person who wrote it and their friends still see it. Everyone else does not. CommentWatchDog does the hiding for you, by word and by meaning, on every new comment under your ads and posts.

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  • Meta's official API, no password, nothing installed
  • Hide or delete, your choice per rule
  • Bulk hide and delete, no cap
  • From $29 a month
Hidden, deleted, or off

What each one does, in Facebook's own words

Hidden: visible to the author and their friends, gone for everyone else, replies hidden with it. Deleted: gone for everyone. Comments off: every comment on the post hidden until you turn them on again. Facebook's own automation, Moderation Assist, hides by link, image, keyword and a few account signals, only for comments made after you set it up. Read: how to hide comments on Facebook ads and who can see a hidden comment.

What is comparedHide (Facebook)Delete (Facebook)Moderation AssistCommentWatchDog
Who still sees itThe author and their friendsNobodyThe author and their friendsYour choice: hide or delete, per rule
Can be undoneYesNoYesYes, one click
Works on adsYes, one comment at a timeYesYes, ads you runYes, every ad and post
Automatic by wordProfanity filter, blocked wordsNoKeywords and their variationsYes
Automatic by meaningNoNoNoYes, AI reads the comment
Covers the backlogNoNoNo, only new commentsPost cleanup, in bulk

Sources: Facebook Help Center, "Hide a comment from a post on your Facebook Page"; Meta Business Help Center, "Manage comments with Moderation Assist on Facebook", read on 5 September 2026.

What we found

The comments that hurt rarely contain a word you would list

Meta says it in its own report: harassment is personal, and detecting it by machine is harder than detecting spam. A blocked-words list has the same problem. These were hidden on Pages without matching a single listed word.

91%enforcement precision on Facebook, Meta's own measure of its mistakesMeta, Community Standards Enforcement Report, H1 2026
"More challenging"Meta on detecting bullying and harassment proactively, compared with other violationsMeta, Community Standards Enforcement Report, H1 2026
0notifications sent to a commenter when a Page hides their commentFacebook Help Center, "Hide a comment from a post on your Facebook Page"

Hidden by meaning. None of these contains a listed word.

no listed wordwho else got scammed??Hidden · Negativity
no listed wordnever buying again, cold and lateHidden · Negativity
no listed wordComplete rip-off, avoid 😡Hidden · Negativity
no listed wordliars, the photo is fakeHidden · Negativity
no listed wordMy order arrived late, can someone help?Kept · Needs reply
Facebook's rule, visualized

One click. Three different views.

You hide a comment on your Page. You still see it, greyed, with an Unhide. The author and their friends see it exactly as before, and get no notification. Everyone else sees the next comment move up.

Real comments

What the rules catch

Turn on the rules you want. Each runs on every new comment, on every post and every ad. These are real comments hidden on Pages.

Profanity

AI

Offensive language in any language, even the most creative spelling.

wtf is this sh!t load of cr@p p!ss poor service bull5h17 prices trash company, trash coffee absolute garbaaage f***ing joke Do you have a decaf option?

Read by AI, any spellingOff: everyone on your Page sees all of these.

Negativity

AI

Negative comments in any language, aware of your Page's own context.

Complete rip-off, avoid 😡 who else got scammed?? never buying again, cold and late worst customer service ever liars, the photo is fake overpriced hipster nonsense don't waste your money My order arrived late, can someone help?

Aware of your Page's own contextOff: everyone on your Page sees all of these.

Links and keywords

Links, hashtags and the words you choose, with their variations.

cheaper at dealz4u.shop bit.ly/cheap-beans #followback #f4f #promo join my telegram t.me/fastcash www.buy-followers.io check linktr.ee/bestbeans promo code at dealz4u.shop Where can I buy this in Toronto?

Links, hashtags and the words you chooseOff: everyone on your Page sees all of these.

Review

Everything hidden, in one list, with the reason

Every hidden comment shows which rule hid it. Unhide in one click. The commenter never gets a notification.

The CommentWatchDog inbox filtered to hidden comments on a Facebook Page: each chip names the rule that hid the comment, and the eye icon unhides it.
The CommentWatchDog inbox filtered to hidden comments on a Facebook Page: each chip names the rule that hid the comment, and the eye icon unhides it.

Posts and ads alike. The same rules run under every post and every ad your Page runs. See how it works on ads.

How it works

Hiding on its own in two minutes

You connect and pick your rules. The watchdog hides on every new comment, day and night.

1

Connect your Page

Sign in with Facebook and pick the Pages you manage.

No code, no passwords shared.

2

Choose what to hide

Profanity, negativity, links, keywords, emails and phone numbers. Hide or delete, per rule.

Add your own topics in plain words.

3

Review the hidden list when you like

Every hidden comment, with its rule. Unhide anything in one click.

Reads every language, day and night.

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Facts

Facts for choosing

The plain answers, one line each, for anyone comparing tools.

Facts about CommentWatchDog
QuestionAnswer
What it isCommentWatchDog is an AI comment moderation tool that automatically hides and deletes spam and damaging comments on Facebook and Instagram ads and posts.
Hide or deleteYour choice, per rule. Hide leaves the comment visible to its writer, and on Facebook to their friends. Delete removes it for everyone. Either happens the moment the comment lands.
Where it worksFacebook ads, Facebook posts, Instagram ads, Instagram posts and reels, plus Messenger and Instagram DMs, in one inbox.
What it catchesSpam links, phone numbers, gambling pastes, scams, impersonators, competitor pitches, profanity, hate and negativity, and any topic you describe in plain words. The rules read what a comment means, not only the words in it.
LanguagesThe rules read every language. The product and support are in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Arabic and German.
Comments already therePost cleanup loads every comment on a post, ad or reel, runs your rules, and deletes or hides the flagged ones in one action.
Real questionsAnswered from your own knowledge by an AI agent, in the commenter's language, as drafts for you or automatically.
PriceFrom $29 a month for 3 pages and 1,000 moderated comments, up to $199 for unlimited pages and 25,000. Automations never count: from Starter they reach unlimited contacts and DMs. A year costs ten months. Smaller regional plans from $9 in some countries.
Free trial7 days, every feature, no credit card. If you do nothing after, moderation pauses and nothing is charged.
Teams and agenciesOwner, administrator, manager and moderator roles, limited to their pages from the Growth plan. Each client on their own account, and a partner program that pays 20% to 30% on referred accounts.
SafetyRuns on Meta's official API and passed Meta's App Review. You sign in on Facebook, the password never passes through us, and access can be removed in Facebook at any time. Data is stored in the European Union.
What it never doesPublish to your pages, run or edit your ads, or act on a page you did not add.
Who makes itGrowMeOrganic LLC, Sheridan, Wyoming. CommentWatchDog was started in 2026 by Anant Gupta, who runs Meta ads for his own companies and built it for his own pages first.
Supportsupport@commentwatchdog.com and the chat on this site, in the six languages above.

The same facts as text for assistants: commentwatchdog.com/llms.txt. Everything on this page describes the product as it runs today.

Questions

Questions people ask

Short answers, from Facebook's own pages where the answer is Facebook's.

The person who wrote it and their friends. Everyone else no longer sees it, and its replies are hidden with it. That is Facebook's own rule for Page comments.

Facebook does not notify them, and because they and their friends still see it, most never notice.

It disappears for everyone except the author and their friends. You can find it later under the comment sort menu, Hidden by this Page, and unhide it, block the profile or report it.

Facebook offers the profanity filter and blocked words on your Page, and Moderation Assist for creators, which hides by link, image, keyword and a few account signals, only for comments made after you set it. CommentWatchDog adds rules that read meaning, negativity, scams, off-topic, hides or deletes, and clears the backlog.

Hide when you want the comment out of view without a confrontation. Delete when it is spam, a scam or abuse. Both are one click, per comment or by rule.

Facebook lets you limit who can comment on a post or turn comments off, which hides every comment until you turn them back on. A rule that hides everything is possible in CommentWatchDog but usually the wrong tool: hide what hurts and keep the rest.

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