diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 792bbce75..9286a938a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## next release
 
 - Fix a bug: a reminder notification were sent for canceled reservations
+- Fix a bug: sharing an event on facebook has HTML tags in the description
 
 ## v2.6.3 2018 January 2
 
diff --git a/app/views/social_bot/event.html.erb b/app/views/social_bot/event.html.erb
index 69c97d3bb..598eeade9 100644
--- a/app/views/social_bot/event.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/social_bot/event.html.erb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
   <!-- Facebook Open Graph -->
   <meta property="og:title" content="<%= @event.title %>"/>
-  <meta property="og:description" content="<%= @event.description %>"/>
+  <meta property="og:description" content="<%= strip_tags(@event.description) %>"/>
   <% if @event.event_image %>
     <meta property="og:image" content="<%= root_url+image.url %>"/>
     <meta property="og:image:width" content="<%= width%>" />