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?”
Response by John Donovan (assisted by ChatGPT) to the Copilot comments can be found under the red text headline at the foot of this page.
Copilot says:
🟡 Why this matters
The feud has evolved from a corporate dispute into a case study in AI misinformation risks, especially when models generate authoritative‑sounding content about real individuals. It’s also become a public test of how AI companies handle corrections, accountability, and provenance.
If you want, we can dig into the history of the feud, the AI ethics angle, or how Shell has responded over the years.
My reply:
Tell me more about: the AI ethics angle
Here’s a deeper look at the AI‑ethics angle in the Donovan/Shell feud, grounded in what the search results actually show and why this particular dispute has become a surprisingly rich case study in AI accountability, provenance, and corporate power. read more
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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
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Tagged: Environment · John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
By Shell News Article Generator | December 11, 2025
“It’s not our typhoon. We just warmed the planet it formed on.”
Shell’s Christmas Gift to the Philippines: Typhoon, Then a Shrug
In a historic legal challenge filed in the UK, survivors of Typhoon Rai — which devastated parts of the Philippines in 2021 — are suing Shell, accusing it of playing a direct role in making the storm worse through its fossil fuel emissions and decades-long commitment to denial, delay, and drilling.
Shell’s response? A firm, well-lubricated “Not it!”
“This is a baseless claim,” said Shell, “and it will not help tackle climate change or reduce emissions.” read more
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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
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Tagged: Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
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
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Tagged: Corrib Gas Project · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
ShellBot Activated: Arbitration Malfunction Detected. Deploying Blame Protocol…
ShellBot Internal Bulletin | 10 December 2025
“At Shell, we never make mistakes — only strategic litigation decisions.
🤖 SYSTEM LOG: Gas Disruption — Initiating Damage Control…
ShellBot Error 429: LNG cargoes were promised. LNG cargoes were not delivered.
Source of glitch: Rogue energy startup Venture Global failed to comply with expectations. Instead of feeding loyal megacorp clients like Shell, they sold to those other capitalists… at higher prices. Outrageous.
ACTION TAKEN:
ShellBot initiated Protocol ARB‑7: “Sue ‘Em & Spin It.” Arbitration filed. Drama ensured. Media engaged. read more
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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
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By Shell News Article Generator | Dec 9, 2025 Come for the STEM, stay for the spin.
🧠 Lessons in “Climate Solutions” — Courtesy of Oil Money
You might think a museum education program would teach the next generation about the science behind global warming. But the version sponsored by Shell? Kids learn that climate change is this nebulous Monster creeping out of the sky — and also get to invent their own carbon‑sucking machines, like that’ll fix everything.
The learning materials distributed through Queensland Museum supposedly hit the national curriculum goals. But — surprise — they leave out the one inconvenient fact: burning fossil fuels (hello, oil and gas) is the main driver of greenhouse gases and damage to the climate. read more
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Tagged: Environment · John Donovan · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
Introduction
For more than three decades, my late father Alfred Donovan and I have been locked in a remarkable and sometimes surreal battle with one of the world’s most powerful corporations: Royal Dutch Shell.
What began as a dispute over advertising work for Shell grew into something far larger – a long-running campaign exposing the company’s behaviour, fuelled by the documents in our possession and the websites we created, including RoyalDutchShellPlc.com and RoyalDutchShellGroup.com. Over time, journalists, authors, academics, campaigners and even Shell insiders have drawn on our archives, correspondence and investigations. Our material has been cited as evidence in court cases, quoted in newspapers and books, and used as source material for documentaries and academic research. read more
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On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with
Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far corporations will go to track and discredit persistent critics.
The episode is more than a curiosity about what an AI assistant will say when asked about a corporate titan: it is a window into the Donovan–Shell saga, the contested evidence underpinning long-standing allegations of surveillance and espionage, and the uneasy interplay between whistleblowers, privately gathered intelligence, and mainstream journalism. This feature unpacks John Donovan’s background, the documentary record he has assembled, the contested claims about Shell and private intelligence firm Hakluyt, and what the Copilot transcript reveals — while flagging where evidence is thin or disputed. read more
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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
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Global Witness has published a serious press release about Shell, Equinor and their new North Sea joint venture, Adura. This is the ShellBot version — same documents, different tone.
User:
ShellBot, what on earth is Adura and why is everyone suddenly talking about a £1.3 billion tax dodge?
ShellBot:
Adura is the new joint venture between Shell and Equinor in the UK North Sea.
Think of it as:
Shell brings a portfolio of ageing but still productive oil and gas fields,
Equinor brings a £1.3 billion “tax shelter” – essentially tax credits that can be used to reduce future UK tax bills. read more
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In this episode, our long-suffering User tries to untangle why analysts keep talking about a “2035 output hole” at Shell, what Galp’s Mopane discovery in Namibia has to do with it, and whether Shell is secretly about to buy half of Portugal. ShellBot, as usual, is armed only with public information, a calm manner and a disclaimer.
User:
I keep seeing references to Shell’s “output hole” around 2035. What does that actually mean? It sounds alarming.
ShellBot:
It sounds dramatic, but it’s basically analyst shorthand for a possible gap in future production. read more
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Shell looks, on the surface, like the most comfortable member of Big Oil. After several years of cost-cutting, the $212 billion group has operating expenses more than 10% lower than two years ago, a relatively modest net debt load and a generous programme of dividends and buybacks.
But analyst work highlighted by Reuters Breakingviews suggests that beneath those tidy numbers sits a long-dated volume problem. On current project plans, Shell’s oil and gas output could slip to around 2.4 million barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d) by 2035 – roughly 500,000 boe/d short of its stated ambition to keep production broadly flat. That “output hole” is increasingly shaping how investors and rivals think about Shell’s next strategic moves. read more
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The papers are telling everyone to get out of Plymouth, Barrow and Telford before WW3.
User: ShellBot, the papers are telling everyone to get out of Plymouth, Barrow and Telford before WW3. Is this it? Should I start digging a bunker?
ShellBot:
Short answer: if we get to “full nuclear exchange”, your official government advice is still basically:
-
Get under a table.
Assume the brace position.
Kiss your ass goodbye.
Some things never go out of style.
In the meantime, let’s talk about why those three places are in the headlines.
User: Go on then.
ShellBot:
The tabloids rang up Gene Sticco – ex-US Air Force nuclear security, long-time Shell security insider – and asked: “If NATO and Russia had a proper bar fight, what in Britain gets hit first?” read more
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When a former nuclear security specialist tells the tabloids which parts of Britain you might not want to be standing in during World War Three, the headlines almost write themselves.
Plymouth. Barrow-in-Furness. Telford.
“WW3 WARNING.” “EXPERT TELLS BRITS TO GET OUT NOW.”
Hidden underneath that noise is a much more interesting story – one about Shell, intelligence work, and John Donovan’s long-running campaign to prise open what the company prefers to keep buried.
At the centre of it sits Gene Sticco – he’s doing exactly what you’d expect of someone who’s spent a career in security and intelligence: using his intelligence.
Donovan, Shell, and the missing piece
To understand why Gene matters, you have to start with John Donovan and his website, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com.
For nearly two decades, Donovan has been: read more
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