Last updated: 18 September 2026
Silicon Canals reports on technology, power and human behaviour inside modern systems. Our three desks ask how systems are built, who controls them and how people live and work within them.
Reporting technology and power
We seek the closest available evidence for factual claims: company filings, policy and regulatory documents, court records, technical documentation, datasets, research and direct statements. Company announcements and investor material are attributed to the organisation making the claim and are not treated as independent verification.
Funding, valuation, revenue, headcount and market figures are dated and sourced because they change. We distinguish reported fact from analysis, commentary and prediction. Headlines must not turn a proposal into a launch, an estimate into a result or a company claim into an established fact.
Reporting work, relationships and behaviour
Coverage of work and digital life connects individual experience to the platforms, incentives and institutions shaping it. Coverage of relationships and society may draw on research, expert material, first-person experience and cultural observation, but each is identified for what it is.
Behavioural research is reported with its material limits. We do not turn a single study into a universal rule, diagnose people at a distance or present general information as personal medical, mental-health, legal or financial advice.
Sources, analysis and attribution
Important factual claims are supportable and important sources are linked. Quotations and outside reporting are attributed. We say that we interviewed, contacted, tested or investigated something only when we did.
We may publish analysis and commentary alongside reported work. The basis of the piece should be clear to the reader, and opinion does not remove the obligation to represent underlying facts accurately.
Authors, editors and AI tools
A named byline identifies a real person who approved publication under that name and any personal material attributed to them. An institutional column identifies a newsroom desk or collective process, not a fictional person.
AI tools may assist with source discovery, research organisation, drafting, editing, headline development and quality checks, and may produce much of an initial draft. AI is not treated as an author. A member of our team reviews and approves every article and remains responsible for its sources, attribution, claims and final presentation.
AI tools must not be used to invent sources or quotations, impersonate people or present generated material as first-hand reporting.
Independence and commercial conflicts
Advertising, sponsorship and commercial partnerships do not determine our editorial conclusions. Sponsored material is identified. Affiliate links and recommendations involving Brown Brothers Media, its founders, staff or their families are disclosed in the article near the recommendation.
Corrections and the archive
We correct material errors promptly. Material corrections and substantial revisions carry a dated note explaining what changed. If an article’s central premise cannot be supported, we withdraw it and leave a notice at the original address where appropriate.
Silicon Canals was founded in Amsterdam in 2014 and became part of Brown Brothers Media in November 2025. Earlier articles remain part of the historical archive and were not necessarily produced under current ownership or current editorial systems. We preserve original publication dates and do not represent a technical migration as an editorial update.
Our current desks are Technology & Power, Work & Digital Life, and Relationships & Society. Accurate and useful archive material remains available even where present commissioning has evolved.
Contact
For corrections, email corrections@brownbrothers.io. For source questions or enquiries about editorial practices, email hello@siliconcanals.com.
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