diff --git a/src/components/views/elements/Pill.js b/src/components/views/elements/Pill.js
index 3094f17fb7..5cd5b8bbf1 100644
--- a/src/components/views/elements/Pill.js
+++ b/src/components/views/elements/Pill.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import MatrixClientContext from "../../../contexts/MatrixClientContext";
 import {Action} from "../../../dispatcher/actions";
 
 // For URLs of matrix.to links in the timeline which have been reformatted by
-// HttpUtils transformTags to relative links. This excludes event URLs (with `[^\/]*`)
+// HttpUtils transformTags to relative links.
 const REGEX_LOCAL_PERMALINK = /^#\/(?:user|room|group)\/(([#!@+]).*?)(?=\/|\?|$)/;
 
 class Pill extends React.Component {