…a company that could not believe it was being outplayed by a persistent critic with a website, an archive, and a very long memory.
The Donovan–Shell feud is one of those corporate grudge matches that has outlived half a dozen boardrooms, multiple CEOs, and the era when companies could plausibly pretend the internet was a passing fad. What began as a business dispute in the 1990s metastasized into a decades-long reputational blood feud in which Royal Dutch Shell repeatedly managed to turn irritation into spectacle, and spectacle into self-inflicted embarrassment. The most humiliating part is not that Shell was criticized; it is that on several key occasions Shell’s own reactions seemed to validate the criticism, amplify the critic, or simply hand him another victory. Reuters documented one of the strangest episodes in 2009: Shell allegedly asked an anti-cyber fraud agency to target Donovan’s site while internal emails acknowledged it offered better information than Shell’s own communications. (shellnews.net)Background
The Donovan story starts in a conventional corporate dispute and ends somewhere closer to performance art. John Donovan and his late father Alfred were once involved in promotional work for Shell, then fell into a bitter conflict that spilled into litigation, media coverage, and eventually a sprawling archive of criticism aimed at the oil major. Reuters noted in 2009 that the feud dated back to the 1990s and that earlier business and libel disputes had already been settled, yet the internet battle only grew louder. (shellnews.net)
In the years leading up to WW2, the Dutch founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Sir Henri Deterding became an ardent Nazi. He financially backed the Third Reich and met directly with Hitler on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell.
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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.”
The prompt which sparked this reply from Copilot is in 
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EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
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