diff --git a/addon/facebook/facebook.php b/addon/facebook/facebook.php
index 8975d8e7a8..c2c5a88768 100644
--- a/addon/facebook/facebook.php
+++ b/addon/facebook/facebook.php
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ function facebook_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 				$msg = preg_replace("/\[img\](.+?)\[\/img\]/is", t('Image: ') . '$1',$msg);
 
 				$msg = trim(strip_tags(bbcode($msg)));
+				$msg = html_entity_decode($msg,ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');
 
 				if (strlen($msg) > FACEBOOK_MAXPOSTLEN) {
 					$shortlink = "";