“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.
By Shell News Article Generator | December 11, 2025
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.
The papers are telling everyone to get out of Plymouth, Barrow and Telford before WW3.
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.
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 
Familiar Names and Threatening Letters: How Shell Tried to Kill My Website – And the Stories About It
Note:
(This article is Part 1 of a series on Shell’s relationship with private intelligence firm Hakluyt & Company and how that story has been handled on Wikipedia. Part 2 looks at the vanishing “Controversies surrounding Royal Dutch Shell” article and a personal footnote about my late father.)
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.
