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A week on from the Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Conference - here's what's kept me thinking: 🧠 If you don't know about #neurotechnology yet (I didn't!) then get to know. The mind-bending (literally) film with Avi Asher-Schapiro about wearable devices, already available on Amazon, that can read brain waves is well worth looking up. 💔 Youmna ElSayed's harrowing account of becoming a war reporter in #Gaza when the atrocities reached her doorstep had everyone in tears. Her parting message for the audience: stop the bias in reporting. 📉 The stats shared by the V-Dem Institute on the declining number of democracies around the world were alarming. The well-trodden playbook is in motion globally - spread mis/disinformation and hate speech, create polarisation, edge towards autocracy. All eyes on the US election next week! 💻 There was lots of discussion around the "bad" uses of AI vs. "good" and how ultimately the "bad" AI uses will always achieve greater engagement and reach online. A lesson there for all of us in #comms - it's something that we need to be acutely aware of. 😎 Would have loved to have seen the cool Kara Swisher, tech journalist, battle it out with Richard Gingras, Head of News at Google - coming at the tech industry from very different perspectives would have made for a great debate! 🔴 Kyle DeGraw's on-brand Mercy Corps red shirt was a shining beacon among the sea of dark suits. Thanks again to the organisers for another inspiring event! Until next year #TC2024.