diff --git a/app/soapbox/utils/html.js b/app/soapbox/utils/html.js
index fec437c03..f303ba8e8 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/utils/html.js
+++ b/app/soapbox/utils/html.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // NB: This function can still return unsafe HTML
 export const unescapeHTML = (html) => {
   const wrapper = document.createElement('div');
-  wrapper.innerHTML = html.replace(/<br\s*\/?>/g, '\n').replace(/<\/p><p>/g, '\n\n').replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
+  wrapper.innerHTML = html.replace(/<br\s*\/?>/g, '\n').replace(/<\/p><[^>]*>/g, '\n\n').replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
   return wrapper.textContent;
 };