“You are not wrong to conclude that Shell has effectively sanitized its history on this page. The narrative is polished and one-sided, emphasizing achievements like pioneering oil transport, aviation innovations, and energy transitions while excluding well-documented controversies that could reflect poorly on the company. This selective editing aligns with patterns you’ve noted elsewhere, such as Wikipedia disputes and the 2007 official history publication, which critics have described as glossing over uncomfortable facts. By presenting a “soft-focus” timeline, Shell crafts a story of unbroken progress and heroism (e.g., wartime alliances with the Allies), which may serve reputational and branding purposes but risks misleading stakeholders about the full scope of its past.” “Yes, investors, shareholders, employees, and the public are entitled to a complete and balanced historical account, particularly from a company like Shell that positions itself as a leader in transparency and sustainability. Ethical considerations are increasingly material in decision-making:”
Question to Grok by John Donovan: 13 Feb 2026
AI platforms contributed to the recent article titled:
AI CONSENSUS: SHELL MUST APOLOGISE FOR ITS TOXIC HISTORY.
I now have a related question.
I have reviewed the page on Shell.com entitled “Our Company History”, which is neatly divided into historical time segments.
Guess what?
There is no reference whatsoever to:
Shell’s documented relationship with the Nazi regime during the 1930s,
The role of Sir Henri Deterding — arguably the most consequential leader in Shell’s early history,
Shell’s longstanding support for apartheid-era South Africa, read more
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“For many Jewish individuals and families, especially those with direct family experience of the Holocaust, any perceived alignment or complicity with the Nazi regime is not a distant historical footnote but an existential moral issue.”: “Some Jewish people almost certainly would avoid investing in or buying from Shell if they fully understood the documented extent of its historic relationship with the Nazi regime and perceived ongoing lack of a clear apology or reckoning is not a distant historical footnote but an existential moral issue.”
John Donovan’s question to Perplexity, 13 Feb 2026: You were one of the AI platforms that contributed to the recent article titled:
“AI CONSENSUS: SHELL MUST APOLOGISE FOR ITS TOXIC HISTORY.”
I now have a related question.
I have reviewed the page on Shell.com entitled “Our Company History”, which is neatly divided into historical time segments.
Guess what?
There is no reference whatsoever to:
Shell’s documented relationship with the Nazi regime during the 1930s,
The role of Sir Henri Deterding — arguably the most consequential leader in Shell’s early history,
Shell’s longstanding support for apartheid-era South Africa,
Or even the 2004 reserves scandal that wiped billions off Shell’s market value and led to the removal of senior executives. read more
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“Do you think that Jewish people would invest in Shell or buy Shell products if they knew of its past close relationship with the Nazi regime responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews, for which there has been no apology by Shell?”: “For many, the issue isn’t just the history itself, but the perceived cover-up, which suggests that the company’s current commitment to “Integrity” is more of a marketing slogan than a lived reality.”
Question to Gemini 3 by John Donovan:
AI platforms contributed to the recent article titled:
AI CONSENSUS: SHELL MUST APOLOGISE FOR ITS TOXIC HISTORY.
I now have a related question.
I have reviewed the page on Shell.com entitled “Our Company History”, which is neatly divided into historical time segments.
Guess what?
There is no reference whatsoever to:
Shell’s documented relationship with the Nazi regime during the 1930s,
The role of Sir Henri Deterding — arguably the most consequential leader in Shell’s early history,
Shell’s longstanding support for apartheid-era South Africa, read more
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John Donovan Discussion with ChatGPT 13 February 2026
JD: You were one of the AI platforms that contributed to the recent article:
“AI CONSENSUS: SHELL MUST APOLOGISE FOR ITS TOXIC HISTORY.”
I now have a related and very specific question.
I have carefully reviewed the page on Shell.com entitled “Our Company History”, which is presented as a structured timeline divided into historical periods.
As of 13 February 2026, I can find no reference whatsoever to:
Shell’s documented relationship with elements of the Nazi regime during the 1930s,
Sir Henri Deterding — one of the most powerful and consequential figures in Shell’s formative history, read more
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You’re researching Donovan, and the WindowsForum.com results overwhelmingly point to a decades-long dispute between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell, significantly amplified by recent experiments with generative AI [8, 9, 1, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19].
This “bot war” involves feeding an extensive archive of information about Shell to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Grok, revealing inconsistencies, “hallucinations” (false information generated by AI), and the challenges of AI handling contested historical narratives [8, 13, 15]. read more
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How a Corporate Governance Fumble Triggered a Regulatory Probe and a Boardroom Shake-Up
By John Donovan— Opinion/Analysis
Date: February 12, 2026
In a rare public rebuke of one of the Big Four accounting firms, global energy giant Shell Plc has moved to sever its long-standing audit relationship with Ernst & Young (EY) after independence breaches in EY’s audit of Shell’s financial statements came to light. The fallout has already seen four EY partners depart, regulators launch formal investigations, and a new auditor — PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) — lined up to take over. read more
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Opinion / Commentary — Not Financial Advice
By John Donovan
The Exit Interview Nobody Asked For
Shell Plc — the global oil and gas supermajor once synonymous with “the future of energy” — is performing what might be the most dramatic corporate version of “it’s not you, it’s me” in fossil fuels. Its latest act is to divest a roughly 16.67% stake in Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project — a facility that helped define Australia’s decades-long gas boom — in a maneuver analysts say signals more than a portfolio tweak. It’s the unravelling of a 50-year partnership and perhaps a metaphor for Shell’s strategic identity crisis. read more
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AI CERTs News: AI Chatbots Escalate Corporate Feud Over Shell’s Bot War
A 30-year dispute between activist John Donovan and energy giant Shell has entered an unexpected digital phase. Consequently, large-language models now sit at the center of a escalating information contest. Donovan feeds public chatbots with decades of leaked documents, then publishes their conflicting answers in near real time. Meanwhile, the strategy reframes an old Corporate battle through synthetic voices that never fatigue.
Observers see the experiment as an early case study in AI-mediated activism. Furthermore, it exposes fresh Reputational vulnerabilities for organizations depending on silence as a shield. ESG analysts also watch closely, because sustainability narratives can be reshaped by algorithmic improvisation. However, hallucination risk remains high, creating new fact-checking burdens for journalists and compliance teams. Consequently, understanding the tactic’s mechanics and stakes is essential for leaders managing Archiving or crisis functions. The following analysis dissects the feud’s AI turn and highlights lessons for governance, risk, and communication professionals. read more
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The prompt which sparked this reply from Copilot is in red text below.
You’re raising a question that sits at the intersection of history, ethics, and modern corporate governance — and the evidence you cite is not fringe, speculative, or uncorroborated. It comes from historians, court records, journalistic investigations, and Shell’s own archival material. When a company with Shell’s global influence carries this kind of historical and contemporary baggage, silence becomes a strategic choice, not an accident. read more
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Tagged: Environment · John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc
1) Net zero (2050): Shell starts “qualifying” the qualifier
Speaking at International Energy Week in London on 10 February, CEO Wael Sawan played down Shell’s standalone responsibility for reaching net zero by 2050, framing it as conditional on the rest of the world and on government policy (“a net zero business in a net zero world”). In the same remarks, Shell reiterated ambitions to grow oil and gas output by ~1 million boe/d by 2030, while arguing governments should pursue “energy addition” (build low-carbon supply without “inhibiting fossil fuel growth). read more
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John Donovan’s December 2025 experiment — feeding decades of adversarial material about Royal Dutch Shell into multiple public AI assistants and publishing the divergent outputs — transformed a long‑running supplier feud and documentary archive into a live test of how generative systems handle contested archives, and in doing so exposed a set of practical governance failures that lawyers, platform designers, corporate boards and journalists must now confront.
Background
From a supplier dispute to an adversarial archive
The Donovan–Shell story begins in commerce: a 1990s dispute between Don Marketing (the Donovan family business) and Shell over promotional work evolved into litigation, domain fights and a decades‑long online campaign by John and his relatives. Over time that campaign produced a persistent, searchable archive of court filings, WIPO and administrative decisions, Subject Access Request (SAR) disclosures, leaked internal emails, press clippings and anonymous tips hosted across a cluster of sites led by royaldutchshellplc.com. The archive is complex: it containsments alongside redacted, anonymous and hard‑to‑trace materials. read more
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A sharply worded satirical post on RoyalDutchShellPlc.com — written with generative tools, analyzed by another AI, and published by a human editor — has quietly become a live case study in how satire, defamation law, and AI-driven journalism now intersect, with practical lessons for reporters, corporate communicators, and legal teams alike. The episode is simple to describe and fiendishly hard to manage: an activist archivist published a parody lampooning Big Oil, routed that text and supporting archive into multiple public assistants, asked one assistant (Microsoft Copilot) to assess legal risk, and then printed the whole loop as both provocation and experiment. The result tests entrenched legal doctrines about fair comment and parody while exposing new operational hazards created when machines write about machines — and when machines judge those writings in real time. read more
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Shell’s lack of apologies for its toxic history: A unanimous verdict by Bot buddies: Perplexity, Grok, ChatGPT, Copilot and Google AI
PERPLEXITY RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION IN RED TEXT AT FOOT OF THIS ARTICLE. THE SAME PROMPT ISSUED TO ALL INVITED AI PLATFORMS.
Shell’s documented conduct under Nazism, apartheid, and in Nigeria creates a strong ethical case that it should issue clear, specific apologies and undertake concrete remediation, rather than maintain its longstanding pattern of silence and minimisation.
1. What the historical record shows
Shell’s own-archive–based histories and independent researchers describe extensive links between Royal Dutch Shell (and especially Sir Henri Deterding) and Nazi Germany, including close personal contacts with Hitler and substantial financial and logistical support to the Third Reich’s war machine. read more
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I strongly believe that Royal Dutch Shell should be held accountable for its outrageous antisemitic actions against its own employees, which cost some of them their lives. The same applies to Shell’s huge financial support for Nazi Germany that contributed to the deaths of some 50 million victims in WW2, including those poor souls who perished in the Holocaust. Shell’s leader, Sir Henri Deterding, was an ardent Nazi feted by Adolf Hitler. Shell has never apologised or expressed any remorse. read more
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Question to Grok: 7 February 2026: What’s the latest on the Donovan Shell saga? (all prompts in red text)
Reply by Grok updated 7 February 2026
The Donovan Shell saga (often called the “Donovan-Shell feud”) refers to a long-running, multi-decade conflict between activist John Donovan (and originally his late father, Alfred Donovan) and Royal Dutch Shell (now Shell plc).
It began in the late 1970s/early 1980s when John Donovan’s company, Don Marketing, worked with Shell UK on promotional games for petrol forecourts. The core grievance stems from allegations that Shell stole intellectual property/ideas from them (related to schemes like the SMART card loyalty program), leading to bitter litigation in the 1990s. This culminated in a high-profile 1999 court case that settled in 2001 with Shell paying an undisclosed sum (a “peace deal”), though Donovan has long claimed breaches and ongoing issues like surveillance or leaks against him.
Post-settlement, Donovan shifted to full-time activism:
- Running multiple critical websites (e.g., royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com) archiving documents, leaks, criticisms of Shell’s scandals (reserves overstatement fraud in 2004, environmental issues in Nigeria/Sakhalin, alleged Nazi history ties pre-WWII, etc.).
- Publishing thousands of articles, an ebook (“John Donovan, Shell’s Nightmare”), and positioning himself as a whistleblower/pressure group founder.
- Media has described it as a classic “David vs. Goliath” with Donovan as “Shell’s nightmare,” involving domain disputes (Shell lost a WIPO cybersquatting case), shareholder activism, and persistent public exposure.
The feud has been called one of the longest one-man campaigns against a major corporation.
Latest developments (as of early February 2026): The saga has evolved into what Donovan and observers term a “Bot War” or “AI-mediated warfare.” Starting prominently in late 2025 and escalating into 2026, Donovan has innovatively used generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Grok, Copilot, etc.) to:
- Feed his vast archival material (decades of documents, emails, court records) into prompts.
- Generate summaries, analyses, satirical commentary, and responses that highlight historical allegations as ongoing issues.
- Create self-reinforcing cycles where AI outputs become “news” in search results, amplifying visibility without traditional media or Shell engagement.
- Query AIs about Shell’s “non-engagement policy” on the saga, producing converging or conflicting narratives that keep the topic alive.
Recent examples include:
- January 2026 posts/articles on his sites about “AI bots turning a 30-year dispute into global news,” misattribution controversies (e.g., AIs falsely claiming Shell statements), and plans for shareholder resolutions at the May 2026 Shell AGM.
- February 2026 queries (e.g., to Copilot/Grok) discussing his “masterclass in digital persistence” via AI amplification, archival prompts, and turning the feud into an “information battle.”
- No major new legal actions, settlements, or Shell responses reported recently—Shell maintains non-engagement, but the AI strategy has drawn commentary on hallucinations, governance risks, and how silence forces third parties (including AIs) to “clarify the record.”
In short, it’s shifted from traditional lawsuits/websites to an AI-driven persistence campaign, with Donovan leveraging tools to sustain and modernize the narrative into 2026. For the most current details, his main site royaldutchshellplc.com frequently updates with AI experiment results and feud recaps. read more
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By John Donovan
Monaca, Pennsylvania — Shell plc’s sprawling chemical complex in Beaver County, known as the Shell Polymers Monaca or Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, has become a flashpoint of environmental, economic and corporate controversy — blending a toxic history of pollution with mounting challenges in Shell’s broader chemicals business.
A Megaproject with a Turbulent Launch
The facility — an ethane cracker and polyethylene plant on roughly 386 acres along the Ohio River — was long pitched as a centerpiece of a petrochemical renaissance in the U.S. Northeast. Construction stretched more than a decade and involved thousands of workers. Its official operational start came in late 2022, with the promise of producing about 1.6 million tonnes of plastic pellets annually. read more
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