Do you know what’s monotonous, involves hours of ‘mildly distressing’ work, may even involve Googling ‘is this legal’, and comes without a Trigger Warning?

Content Moderation.

If AI could remove human effort from one thing, it had to be the task of sifting through rows of daily content to weed out what’s ‘spammy’ and irrelevant. Before it goes live and throws a dent in your brand image, of course.

And we know how social media feeds can come with a lot of random content that’s adrift on the internet. Even aggregating content from a well-intentioned hashtag could sometimes pull in unwanted posts that need human attention and careful moderation before it can go on your website.

That’s why the Flockler team is very excited to present our newest and biggest feature of 2024—say hello to Flockler’s AI Content Moderator, Garde AI ✨ the newest addition to your content management stack (and a respite for content managers everywhere!)

Boost Content Moderation with AI-Driven Precision

Garde AI is here to take the heavy lifting of sifting through all your content and approving just what's brand-safe, off your editors. This gives you complete control over the content displayed on your social walls in real-time. Because as we all know, modern problems (abundance of social media content) require modern solutions!

Whether you're managing an event, running a social media campaign, or just curating content for your website, this feature will make moderation effortless and effective—and real-time!

So what does Flockler’s Garde AI do?

Garde AI is an intelligent moderation tool inside Flockler that automatically flags and hides anything offensive, irrelevant, or spammy, ensuring that only quality content reaches your audience, keeping your tone consistent and your content relevant. Here are the types of content (across image and text format) that get weeded out by Garde AI.

• Violence and crimes

• Rude gestures & explicit content

• Sexual content

• Profanity and hate

• Tobacco and Alcohol

• Drugs & Gambling

• Self-harm

• Private and sensitive data

• Nudity and swimwear

• Specialized advice

• Defamation

• Weapons

• Hate symbols

• Disturbing visuals

Let's look at why this feature should matter to you

The internet can be a chaotic place, but with Garde AI, you can filter out the noise and protect your brand from unwanted content. It can help,

• Save Business Hours: No more manual moderation. Let AI handle everything from moderation to publishing feeds on your website and save your editors hours of manual effort every week.
   

• Ensure Content Relevance: Posts that don’t fit your brand or contain offensive language won’t make it onto your site, this keeps your content fresh and on-brand.
   

• Increase Efficiency: Moderate hundreds of posts automatically, cutting down hours of manual effort, with the automation that our AI brings. It not only moderates, it also publishes anything that’s ‘approved’.
   

• Moderation Report: Once a content is struck down, you can manually okay it from inside Flockler. We also send out a report of all the content that’s been weeded out so far.
   

• Do UGC Better: Understand which hashtags—general or specific—bring in the most relevant content for your brand and which attract a lot of noise, in order to refine your UGC strategy.
   

• Avoid Human Error: If time is of the essence, and you’re moderating dozens of posts for multiple accounts (maybe you’re an agency!) Flockler's AI Content Moderator ensures no human errors and that no bad content slips through the cracks.

Here's what in it for Flockler users and anyone that's new

Whether you're a current Flockler user or a new to the ecosystem and interested in trialing, Garde AI brings immediate value to your social media efforts. Here’s how:

• Existing Flockler Users: No more manual moderation. AI handles offensive or irrelevant content, allowing you to focus on other aspects of your brand. And this comes at no extra cost for any user on the Business, Pro, or Premium plan. If you’re on a lower plan and want to try it out, just request and we promise to help!
   

• Businesses interested in Flockler: Save on additional moderation tools and trust Flockler to handle the task automatically, making content management easier than ever. With your trial of Flockler get a limited number of Content Moderation credits and try out this feature for yourselves.

So how to get started if you’re an existing Flockler user?
Glad you asked, just follow our lead.

Step 1: Head to ‘Feeds’ on your main Flockler menu to create an Automated feed like you usually would and pick a source from where you want to pull content from. Here we chose X (formerly Twitter).

Step 2: I’ve chosen to gather all content that’s tagged with the hashtag #f1 since we like motorsport content. At this stage you can also set filters to further refine the type of content. Only pulling content with images, for example.

Step 3: Now Garde AI makes its first appearance. Flockler bot asks you if you’d like to moderate the content coming manually or through the AI.

Step 4: Once you select ‘Moderate with AI’ - you’ll get one of two results depending on the plan you’re on.

Scenario 1 - You’re not subscribed to Flockler Business, Pro, or Premium plan.

Here you’ll be guided to subscribe to a higher plan that packs in our moderation features.

Simply follow the instructions and add an upgrade to your plan, it takes only about a minute.

And voila! You’ve now upgraded to a plan with Garde AI that manages all your moderation and publishing seamlessly, without your intervention.

Scenario 2: In case you’re already on our higher plan and moderating content manually

Go to ‘Feeds’ main menu and cancel your manual moderation first to enable the AI-moderation. This is available on your Step 1 page. (For those trying moderation out for the first time, we’ve saved you even that one extra step.)

Simply hit ‘Moderate with AI’ on the chatbot to get started.

Step 5: You can now pick the layout (display) of your choice and set-up your feed that’s AI moderated in seconds.

And that’s it! Head to the ‘Content’ section on the main menu to see what content has been moderated and posted by Garde AI.

From your Feeds menu you can also track the feeds you’ve set up that are running on Garde AI,

What happens to the ‘rejected content’

Fair question. Worry not, everything that’s been 'rejected' by Garde AI is also archived, and you can manually check and publish these posts. That way you get full visibility into what content is getting filtered out.

Garde AI is free on the higher plans (Business, Pro, Premium)—log in and try it out! For anyone on a lower plan, it is available with a simple one-step upgrade offering 300 auto-moderated posts per month. Go try it out today 

For free trial users, we haven't forgotten you either. Garde AI is also available on a limited basis during your trial—we’re currently offering 25 posts for AI-moderation during your 14 day free trial.