Facebook bug prevents some page owners from being able to hide spam comments

A Facebook bug is causing some page owners to be unable to hide comments that contain spam or inappropriate messages. Page owners can still delete comments, but the “hide” option is temporarily disabled.

Facebook tells us it is aware of the bug and is working on a fix.

Many page owners are frustrated by the issue, which has been around for at least a week based on reports in the Help Center forum. Now when page admins click the X next to a comment, they can only choose “remove,” rather than “hide” or “mark as spam.” The

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