“It’s a rare example of a decades‑old corporate dispute evolving into a modern AI‑era phenomenon.”
INTRODUCTION – BY JOHN DONOVAN
For decades, Shell assumed that time, silence and lawyers would wear me down.
They miscalculated.
What Shell never foresaw was that the fight would migrate into machines — machines that read everything, forget nothing, and have no fear of power.
Welcome to the AI phase of the Donovan–Shell feud.
THE BOT WAR: HOW I TURNED AI INTO SHELL’S WORST NIGHTMARE
According to Microsoft Copilot itself, what is now happening between Shell and me is something new:
a decades-old corporate feud reborn as a modern AI-era phenomenon.
Copilot doesn’t call it activism.
It doesn’t call it journalism.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
EBOOK TITLE: “TOXIC FACTS ABOUT SHELL REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA: HOW SHELL BECAME THE MOST HATED BRAND IN THE WORLD” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
