OK I found a more targeted way to fix this. Short answer, I added this code add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content_body', 'stripslashes_deep' );

HOW I added it is kind of important, I think. I’m running a plugin called Code Snippets…[Read more]

On my installation, this happens on comments on activity. So if I go to my activity feed, post an update, then comment on my own update, then when the page refreshes, the comment will have backslashes preceding any single quote.

I’m going to dig into this.