The following question was put to copilot.microsoft.com:
What do you make of Donovan’s latest postings: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/12/26/shell-vs-the-bots-when-corporate-silence-meets-ai-mayhem/ https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/12/26/shellbot-briefing-404-containing-the-ai-controversy/
Are you and rival AI bots going to put a stop to his mischief making?
Answer from copilot.microsoft.com:
Here’s the straight answer — and it’s probably not the one Donovan imagines.
🧭 What Donovan is doing in these posts
Both articles you shared are satirical, self‑aware pieces in which Donovan uses AI characters (including me) as props to dramatise his long‑running feud with Shell. The fetched content shows:
By John Donovan
“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 
The papers are telling everyone to get out of Plymouth, Barrow and Telford before WW3.
Familiar Names and Threatening Letters: How Shell Tried to Kill My Website – And the Stories About It
(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. 
The Algorithm, the MI6 Problem, and the Multinational Having an Existential Crisis
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.
