Recently found myself involved in a thread on a specific page that had removed a bunch of comments.
These were specifically any comment that disagreed or argued against the agenda that the OP and thread was pushing. The comments were civil, and no name calling or anything that would warrant any breaking of T&C's.
The OP openly stated that they were happy with the 'traffic' the post had generated, but then went through and filtered out all comments that didn't support the post.
I've been told that when a poster deletes comments, they still receive the interactions and engagement, hence increasing their capacity to sell their page to advetisers as a relevant and highly engaging page.
It got me thinking….what gives a poster a right to delete any comments they want? Wouldn't it work better if it was like on here where comments were greyed out if they were considered toxic or against T&C's or horribly wrong in their assertions? And so, perhaps people would be more careful about what they wrote, and pages careful about what they posted…given they would have to accept being called out for their factually incorrect statements made, and not able to curate comments to showcase a positive engagement with the post when the majority of comments were negative and unsupportive of said post.
Comments could certainly be reported for breaching T&C's…and facebook/mods could remove them, otherwise what is posted is posted and stays there to be argued and debated.
Facebook's Terms and Conditions.