SXSW is not a conference and it is not a music festival. It is billed as a hybrid of both. That is why HUMAN’s own Francis Kitrick was there, listening to the next big artist in music and discussing what was to come when it came to fighting bots and fraud industry wide. Francis along with Josiah Albertsen (Pandora-Siriusxm), Christine Barnum (CDBaby) and Niels Rump (DDEX) got together for a panel called A Growing Collaboration to Fight Bots & Spin Fraud. Francis and the rest of the panel talked about what schemes they were seeing from bad actors in the music landscape, how bots are affecting the way artists create, and the best way to stop their actions as well.