diff --git a/packages/discovery-provider/integration_tests/tasks/entity_manager/test_comment.py b/packages/discovery-provider/integration_tests/tasks/entity_manager/test_comment.py
index 487421495cc..3f97cee1ac2 100644
--- a/packages/discovery-provider/integration_tests/tasks/entity_manager/test_comment.py
+++ b/packages/discovery-provider/integration_tests/tasks/entity_manager/test_comment.py
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ def test_comment_reaction(app, mocker):
 
     reaction_entities = {
         **entities,
-        "comments": [{"comment_id": 1, "user_id": 2}],
+        "comments": [{"comment_id": 1, "user_id": 2, "entity_id": 1}],
     }
 
     tx_receipts = {
diff --git a/packages/discovery-provider/src/tasks/entity_manager/entities/comment.py b/packages/discovery-provider/src/tasks/entity_manager/entities/comment.py
index eba60a04928..05a243e0ae8 100644
--- a/packages/discovery-provider/src/tasks/entity_manager/entities/comment.py
+++ b/packages/discovery-provider/src/tasks/entity_manager/entities/comment.py
@@ -241,8 +241,11 @@ def create_comment(params: ManageEntityParameters):
 
     comment_id = params.entity_id
     # Only fan club posts can be members-only; track comments are never gated.
+    # Note: parse_metadata normalizes missing fields to None (not absent), so we can't
+    # rely on dict.get's default — we must explicitly treat None as "field omitted".
+    is_members_only_meta = metadata.get("is_members_only")
     is_members_only = (
-        bool(metadata.get("is_members_only", True))
+        (True if is_members_only_meta is None else bool(is_members_only_meta))
         if entity_type == FAN_CLUB_ENTITY_TYPE
         else False
     )