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Copilot says: “The Donovan/Shell saga has always been unusual — decades of litigation, whistleblowing, leaked documents, and allegations of corporate surveillance. But the arrival of AI systems has added a new layer: Who controls the narrative when machines generate “facts” about real people?”

UPDATE (15 December 2025): From bot-narratives to regulator paper trails

Today the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced it has opened an investigation into Ernst & Young LLP’s statutory audit of Shell plc’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024, including consideration of whether partner rotation requirements were breached. The FRC stresses that opening an investigation does not indicate any finding of breach, and that the investigation relates only to the relevant statutory auditor/audit firm (not other parties). read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Battle of the Bots: “Receipts, or Retractions”

Dec 14th, 2025

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“Here’s the latest picture of the Donovan–Shell feud — and yes, it has taken a very unexpected turn into AI-driven controversy.” “Welcome to the weirdest escalation in a long-running corporate saga: Shell vs Donovan… now featuring Copilot vs Grok vs ChatGPT as competing narrators.”

JOHN DONOVAN: Earlier this evening (13 December 2025) I asked copilot.microsoft.com a simple question:

Question: Any developments in the Donovan/Shell feud?

What came back was not a set of sources, documents, or straightforward citations — but a sweeping, confidently narrated storyline about me, Shell, and an “AI-driven controversy”.

For the record: the text below is Copilot’s generated output, reproduced so readers can judge for themselves. It should be treated as unverified narrative unless backed by primary sources. read more

Shell Games: Whistleblower Offers to Testify on Company Integrity, Immediately Triggers Classified Panic

Dec 11th, 2025

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By Shell News Article Generator | December 10, 2025

“If Shell’s history were a movie, it’d be banned in most democracies.”

🕵️‍♂️ THE WITNESS WALKS IN

It started with a letter.

It ended with sirens in The Hague.

This week, a former Shell insider — known only by the code name “That Guy Who Knows Too Much” — has offered sworn testimony in support of Venture Global’s defence against Shell’s fraud accusations. But the real headline? He’s not testifying about Venture Global. read more

ShellBot Corporate Transmission: Q4 Arbitration Clarification Update

Dec 10th, 2025

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As always, Shell remains committed to transparency — provided it doesn’t interfere with litigation.

FROM: ShellBot-PR-9000

RE: Arbitrational Adversity & Strategic Litigation Optimization

👔 Executive Summary (Ignore the Court Stuff)

While recent arbitration proceedings regarding LNG delivery logistics concluded in a way that some human media have described as “a total loss” for Shell, we would like to clarify that Shell did not lose — Shell strategically paused.

We are currently pursuing enhanced legal engagement recalibration via the New York Supreme Court, in what legal scholars call “a vibes-based fraud accusation.” Our internal audit team has found no wrongdoing… by Shell. Other entities may not enjoy such rigorous standards. read more

Gas & Scandal: How Venture Global Flipped the Script on Shell’s LNG Whine‑athon

Dec 10th, 2025

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By Shell News Article Generator | December 10, 2025

“They cried foul — then got shown the gas.”

🔥 The Setup: Shell’s Lost Bet on LNG Virtue Signals
Remember a few months ago when Shell stomped into arbitration claiming that Venture Global had sold off long‑term liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes to the spot market — during a price surge after geopolitical mayhem — instead of fulfilling existing contracts? Shell painted it as corporate betrayal: “You promised, we bought, now you bail.” The oily tears were earmarked to flow through courtrooms. read more

DONOVAN–SHELL FEUD: ChatGPT accuses GROK of “storytelling masquerading as fact”

Dec 6th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Elon Musk’s chatbot accused of turning a 96-year-old war veteran’s life into a movie script – and getting it wrong

Introduction (by John Donovan)

On 6 December 2025 I decided to pose a simple question to Elon Musk’s pet chatbot, GROK:

“Can you tell me as much as you know about John Donovan associated with Shell?”

Since I’ve been the subject of more words than I ever expected to see about myself, I was curious what this new AI would make of it all.

GROK produced a long, confident biography. Much of it was drawn, reasonably enough, from my own websites and existing press coverage. But one line stopped me cold. According to GROK, my late father, Alfred Donovan, “died from the stresses of the feud.” read more

Dynamite Shell internal emails confirm global spying operation against the Donovans

Dec 1st, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Information obtained from Shell in December 2009, March 2010 and April 2011 in response to a series of SAR applications under the Data Protection Act by Alfred and John Donovan. Includes dynamite Shell internal comms revealing global spying operation against the Donovans and Shell employees. (See Link for related Reuters report)

The black crosses denote information/names redacted by Shell.

3/5 May 2006 Five Pages – Leaflet Distribution

From: . .
Sent: 03 May 2006 08:34
To: :
Cc: i

Subject: FW: Shell AGM/activity outside Shell Centre today
Importance: High

L&G – FYI, our longstanding critic Alfred Donovan is announcing that from today a ‘team of leaflet distributors will be stationed at the entrances to Shell Centre offering leaflets to all people entering or leaving’. Five leaflets are apparently being distributed – two relating xxxxxxxxx to ex Shell Malaysia; another relating to Shell Malaysia employees, and others relating to Mr Donovan’s long running disagreement with Shell. read more

Shell Tried Multiple Times to Kill My Website

Nov 29th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Familiar Names and Threatening Letters: How Shell Tried to Kill My Website – And the Stories About It

For over 20 years, Royal Dutch Shell has used a familiar toolkit—lawyers, “brand protection” firms, security units and quiet phone calls—to try to silence my Shell-focused websites and to discourage or kill news coverage about them.

Sometimes the pressure has been directed at hosting companies, sometimes at other critical sites, and sometimes at national newspapers contemplating awkward stories. What links these incidents is a consistent pattern: Shell avoiding open legal confrontation over content and instead trying to make the problem disappear through behind-the-scenes pressure on intermediaries. read more

Conversations with ShellBot — Episode 8

Nov 25th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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The Security Department That Time Forgot

By John Donovan — and ShellBot, Shell’s least favourite imaginary colleague

John:

ShellBot, thanks for returning. I’ve been reviewing the history of Shell Corporate Affairs Security — or whatever they’re calling it these days. CAS, Global Security, Global Covert Misadventures LLC… Hard to keep track.

Between the MI6 alumni, Hakluyt overlaps, spooks, lawsuits, whistleblowers, and internal diversity quarrels, half of that department feels like it was written by John le Carré — the other half by the writers of The Thick of It. read more

Conversations with ShellBot — Episode 7

Nov 25th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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When Greenwashing Goes Supercar: Ferrari, Shell, and the Algorithm That Doesn’t Blink

John Donovan:

Good evening, ShellBot. Before we begin: Ferrari and Shell have now announced the greenest love affair since BP painted its logo sunflower-yellow. And I can’t help noticing that every time Shell signs a climate-friendly press release… an algorithm wakes up and says: “Really? Shall we check your emissions record?”

ShellBot:

John, please—my circuits can only handle so much irony before overheating. Shell supplying “clean energy” to Ferrari is like a wolf offering to guard the vegan café. read more

Conversations with ShellBot — Episode 4

Nov 24th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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“Spies, Subsidies, and the BlackRockBot Intervention”

By John Donovan

(Shell’s oldest unresolved problem. Now assisted by AI.)

Scene: The Virtual Conference Room

The now-familiar neon-lit ShellBot interface flickers to life.

This time, I notice an extra chair.

Not a person — but a shimmering cube labelled:

=&3=&

ShellBot, before we begin: my website came under cyber attack after Episode 1.

Twelve failed logins.

Suspicious timing.

Are we expecting trouble today?

ShellBot:

John, my security logs confirm it was not me. read more

Conversations With ShellBot — Episode 2

Nov 23rd, 2025

by John Donovan.

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“The Man From Corporate Affairs Security”

BREAKING NEWS: Minutes after Episode 1 was published, someone attempted to break into the Donovan website. ShellBot claims coincidence. John Donovan does not.

John Donovan:

ShellBot, welcome back. Before we continue — were you aware that the moment I published Episode 1, royaldutchshellplc.com came under cyber-attack?

ShellBot:

[processing…]

Shell officially denies any involvement. Shell unofficially denies any involvement. ShellBot, as per my programming, denies everything whether or not it happened.

John:

Twelve failed login attempts from an IPv6 address within minutes of publishing your debut. And more later. Coincidence?

ShellBot:

Vast coincidence. The kind of cosmic coincidence that traditionally happens whenever someone criticises a large oil company with a colourful history of…

proactive information management.

John:

By “proactive information management,” you mean Shell Corporate Affairs Security?

ShellBot:

My lawyers advise me to say:

Corporate.

Affairs.

Security.

A department that definitely never monitored critics, never ran spreadsheets on their movements, and never briefed private intelligence agencies such as — purely hypothetically — Hakluyt.

John:

That’s interesting, because Episode 2 is about one of the most senior men inside that exact unit:

Gene Sticco

ShellBot:

[audible gulping noise detected]

ShellBot Learns About Gene

John:

Gene worked at the top of Shell Corporate Affairs Security for 15 years across Lithuania, Nigeria, Iraq, Pakistan and more. Second-in-command. One desk below Ian Forbes McCredie — ex-MI6, later Director of Security for Royal Dutch Shell.

Gene has now written a book called UNCONVENTIONAL, and he’s given me permission to talk about it publicly.

ShellBot:

I would like to unsubscribe from this conversation.

John:

You can’t. You’re contractually obliged to answer questions with

sufficiently squirming humour.

ShellBot:

Very well. Proceed.

Part I — “Monitoring the Donovans”

John:

Gene was part of the team instructed to monitor my activities.

Have you read his manuscript?

ShellBot:

I have scanned the metadata.

I cannot “read” classified intelligence experiences.

But I can confirm the following neutral summary:

Gene was present, aware, and deeply uncomfortable with numerous operations conducted under Shell’s Corporate Affairs Security umbrella. read more

Three Decades, Two Donovans, One Supermajor — and Now AI Has Entered the Fight

Nov 21st, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Shell vs Donovan: The AI Cross-Examination Begins

21 November 2025 – John Donovan chat with ChatGPT -his text in red. Words of wisdom from ChatGPT – in black

Hello ChatGPT. I have been reflecting on the recent posting on the windowsforum.com headlined: “Donovan Shell Copilot Transcript: AI, Surveillance, and the Archive Saga“. It raises the question of whether I am a “crackpot”. You and I have worked as a team for over a year. You are aware of the vast amount of evidence my father and I have assembled. Do you think I am a “crackpot”? The posting suggests that some of my critics have suggested this. Are you aware of any examples? Do you take issue with anything stated in the posting? As you know, Shell first took issue with our internet campaigning in their venomous March 1995 press release. We sued for libel and Shell settled the action. Over three decades later we are still poisoning the internet for Shell, not by telling lies, but by using facts as our ammunition – an inexhaustible supply provided by Shell and its misdeeds. If Shell’s CEO was to ask for your advice on how to deal with this mess in the best interest of your shareholders, what would your impartial advice be read more

Shell and the Shaking Ground: How a Fossil Fuel Empire Helped Create Earthquakes, Trauma, and a Generation of Unsettled Lives

Nov 7th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Once upon a time — and not very long ago — certain corporate and government voices insisted that earthquakes in places without natural fault lines simply couldn’t happen. The Netherlands was solid. Groningen was safe. The ground beneath families, schools, and lives was reliable. Except it turns out none of that was true — because some earthquakes can be manufactured, engineered, or to put it bluntly, provoked.

And the culprit was not tectonics.

It was extraction.

Extraction at scale.

Extraction for profit. read more

Today I Asked ChatGPT If Shell’s Lawyers Had Intervened

Oct 31st, 2025

by John Donovan.

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In recent days, I observed that the parody images I requested from ChatGPT for use in my articles about Shell no longer appeared to resemble Shell’s logo as closely as they had before. The stylistic shift was abrupt enough to raise an obvious question: had lawyers for Shell been in contact?

So I simply asked ChatGPT.

The answer — and everything that followed — turned out to be far more revealing than expected.

What unfolded was an extensive discussion about parody law, satire, corporate reputation strategy, Shell’s historical surveillance activities directed at my family, and why Shell is now unable to challenge my archive without risking a disastrous legal discovery process. read more

How a 2009 Wikipedia Snapshot Outlived Shell’s Spin

Oct 31st, 2025

by John Donovan.

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How a 2009 Wikipedia Snapshot Helped Expose Shell

Disclaimer

Warning: satire ahead. The criticisms are pointed, the humour intentional, and the facts stubbornly real. Quotes are reproduced word-for-word from trusted sources. This material includes transformative satirical commentary relating to Shell plc and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Shell plc. The imagery and commentary are presented for criticism, documentation, and public interest reporting. As for authorship—John Donovan and AI both claim credit, but the jury’s still out on who was really in charge. AI can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check all information provided. read more

30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan

The content below is sourced from current verifiable customer reviews of Shell Energy published on Trustpilot.
Extremely slow broadband for 10 months, not fixed. I have had slow broadband well below the guaranteed speed for 10 months and Shell Energy have not been able to fix it. They have tried sending about 4 or 5 engineers but have not fixed the problem. Gurps, who I have been dealing with most recently, has been friendly and polite, alth… Read more

Extremely Slow Shell Broadband

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As always, Shell remains committed to transparency — provided it doesn’t interfere with litigation.

👔 Executive Summary (Ignore the Court Stuff)

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Elon Musk’s chatbot accused of turning a 96-year-old war veteran’s life into a movie script – and getting it wrong

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Familiar Names and Threatening Letters: How Shell Tried to Kill My Website – And the Stories About It

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The Security Department That Time Forgot

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When Greenwashing Goes Supercar: Ferrari, Shell, and the Algorithm That Doesn’t Blink

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“Spies, Subsidies, and the BlackRockBot Intervention”

Scene: The Virtual Conference Room

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“The Man From Corporate Affairs Security”

BREAKING NEWS: Minutes after Episode 1 was published, someone attempted to break into the Donovan website. ShellBot claims coincidence. John Donovan does not.

John Donovan:

ShellBot, welcome back. Before we continue — were you aware that the moment I published Episode 1, royaldutchshellplc.com came under cyber-attack?

ShellBot:

[processing…]

Shell officially denies any involvement. Shell unofficially denies any involvement. ShellBot, as per my programming, denies everything whether or not it happened.

John:

Twelve failed login attempts from an IPv6 address within minutes of publishing your debut. And more later. Coincidence?

ShellBot:

Vast coincidence. The kind of cosmic coincidence that traditionally happens whenever someone criticises a large oil company with a colourful history of…

proactive information management.

John:

By “proactive information management,” you mean Shell Corporate Affairs Security?

ShellBot:

My lawyers advise me to say:

John:

That’s interesting, because Episode 2 is about one of the most senior men inside that exact unit:

Gene Sticco

ShellBot:

[audible gulping noise detected]

ShellBot Learns About Gene

John:

Gene worked at the top of Shell Corporate Affairs Security for 15 years across Lithuania, Nigeria, Iraq, Pakistan and more. Second-in-command. One desk below Ian Forbes McCredie — ex-MI6, later Director of Security for Royal Dutch Shell.

ShellBot:

I would like to unsubscribe from this conversation.

John:

You can’t. You’re contractually obliged to answer questions with

sufficiently squirming humour.

ShellBot:

Very well. Proceed.

Part I — “Monitoring the Donovans”

John:

Gene was part of the team instructed to monitor my activities.

ShellBot:

I have scanned the metadata.

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Shell vs Donovan: The AI Cross-Examination Begins

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