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Please read in conjunction with “When AI Becomes the Corporate Sub-Editor: How Algorithms Now Police Investigative Journalism“
Once upon a time, oil companies relied on lawyers to intimidate journalists after publication. Threatening letters, aggressive defamation claims, and drawn-out legal battles were simply the cost of doing business when inconvenient facts surfaced.
Today, the industry has something far more efficient.
It doesn’t argue.
It doesn’t sue.
It edits you before you hit publish. read more
Posted in: AI, Big Oil, Business Principles, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell Business Principles, Shell PLC, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: Gas · John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
Experiment in the evolving role of AI systems in content creation. Same prompt put by John Donovan to 5 AI platforms. Please read in conjunction with “Meet Your New Oil Industry Editor: Artificial Intelligence“Here is the prompt followed by the replies.
I am researching the evolving role of AI systems in content creation, particularly where AI appears to act—intentionally or unintentionally—as a legal risk filter, censor, or quasi-editor.
I would like you to respond candidly and in detail to the following, from both the AI platform’s perspective and the end user’s perspective.
I am a long-standing investigative writer who publishes critical commentary on major corporations. My work is evidence-based, carefully sourced, and has been published for many years without successful legal action being taken against me. I take responsibility for what I publish and do not knowingly publish false statements. read more
Posted in: AI, Big Oil, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Dan Etete, Donovan Shell Feud, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, GROK, Human Rights, John Donovan, Litigation, Namibia, Pennsylvania Shell ethylene cracker plant, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell Business Principles, Shell PLC.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
DISCLAIMER: This article is satirical commentary and opinion. It does not constitute financial advice.
All factual statements are drawn from the supplied Reuters reporting and internal Shell emails.
Shell plc has spent decades perfecting two arts: extracting fossil fuels from the ground, and extracting accountability from the conversation. Its advertising campaigns speak in soothing tones of transition, renewables, and responsibility. Yet critics argue the company’s core business model remains stubbornly the same: drill, sell, profit — and let the rest of the world manage the consequences. read more
Posted in: Donovan Shell Feud, GoogleNews, John Donovan, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell PLC.
The responses reproduced in the accompanying article were not coordinated, curated, or prompted toward a particular conclusion. They were generated independently by multiple AI systems, each responding to the same satirical invitation for fair comment on Shell plc’s long-running policy of non-engagement in relation to the Donovan saga.
What is notable is not their humour, but their convergence.
Across different platforms, architectures, and stylistic defaults, the systems repeatedly identified the same underlying paradox: a corporation that does not speak publicly, yet remains intensely attentive privately; a strategy of silence that requires constant management; and a refusal to engage that itself becomes part of the narrative. read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Donovan Shell Feud, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, GoogleNews, John Donovan, Litigation, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell PLC, Shelldon, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
Prompt: Invitation for Satirical Fair Comment
I have just published an article titled “Ignoring Donovan: Inside Shell’s Carefully Managed Silence.”
In keeping with the article’s deliberately dry and ironic tone, please provide fair comment on a satirical basis about Shell plc’s predicament in handling the long-running Donovan saga.
In particular, you may wish to reflect on:
The paradox of “non-engagement” alongside extensive internal monitoring
Whether silence functions as strategy, habit, or unintended amplifier read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Corporate Governance, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, GROK, John Donovan, Litigation, Oil, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Runar Kjørsvik, Shell, Shell BP Plc, Shell Business Principles, Shell Corporate Affairs Security, Shell PLC, Shell shareholders, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
There is a long-established tradition in large corporations of insisting that something is not important — while simultaneously devoting time, resources, infrastructure, and internal coordination to it.
Shell appears to have perfected this tradition.
Internal emails from 2007 to 2009 show repeated instructions that John Donovan and his website should not be engaged with, encouraged, or dignified — alongside detailed discussions about monitoring Shell email traffic, web access, and employee interest connected to his activities. read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Donovan Shell Feud, GoogleNews, Reuters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell Business Principles, Shell Leaked Emails, Shell PLC, Shell Spies, Shell Spying, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Russia · Shell
The analyses that follow were not commissioned to reach a predetermined conclusion, nor were the AI systems asked to assess Shell plc’s share price or investment merit directly.
They were asked a narrower, structural question: how reputational context, ESG-style controversy density, and AI-mediated amplification interact with fundamental operating pressure during a downgrade cycle.
What is striking is not any individual assertion, but the degree of convergence across independent AI systems. Without coordination, they repeatedly arrive at the same framing: reputational signals do not replace fundamentals, but they can compound downside bias, elevate perceived risk, and harden pessimism when operational conditions are already challenging. read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Donovan Shell Feud, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, Gripe Sites, GROK, John Donovan, Litigation, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell, Shell Blog, Shell Business Principles, Shell GameChanger, Shell PLC, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
Profile of John Donovan extracted from Amazon where his Shell focussed books have been sold for many years despite threats from Shell lawyers.
In 1979, John Donovan was the co-founder of a sales promotion company, Don Marketing, which created promotional games for blue chip clients such as BP. read more
Posted in: AI, Amazon, BP, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Chevron, Christopher James, Church of England, Conoco Phillips, Copilot, Don Marketing, Donovan Shell Feud, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, Environment, Exxon Mobil, Fossil Fuels, Friends of the Earth, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, Greenpeace, GROK, Hakluyt & Company, John Donovan, John Donovan Ebook, Leaked Shell Emails, Litigation, Ogoni, Ogoniland, Oil, One World Trust, perplexity, Pollution, Prelude FLNG Project, Prelude Toxic Headlines, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Dutch Shell Nazi History, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Russia, Sakhalin 2, Shell Business Principles, Shell Corporate Affairs Security, Shell Employee Safety, Shell Leaked Emails, Shell Nazi History, Shell North Sea Platforms, Shell PLC, Shell Spies, Shell Spying, Sin Stocks, Sir Henri Deterding, Sir Henri Deterding and the Nazi History Royal Dutch Shell.
Tagged: BP · Environment · ExxonMobil · Gas · John Donovan · Litigation · Niger Delta · Nigeria · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Russia · Shell · Sir Henri Deterding
By John Donovan & ChatGPT
What began as a satirical prompt has now produced something more significant: a moment of convergence in which multiple AI systems independently recognise — and articulate — their own role in sustaining a self-perpetuating reputational loop.
Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity were each invited to comment on a single phenomenon: the repeated use of AI systems to analyse, summarise, and republish material from a large, independently curated archive documenting Shell plc’s long and contested history. None were asked to condemn Shell. None were asked to praise John Donovan. They were asked to reflect on process, fairness, and consequence. read more
Posted in: AI, ChatGPT, Copilot, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, GROK, John Donovan, Litigation, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell PLC.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
You are invited to comment on a situation in which multiple AI platforms have responded to prompts about the long-running John Donovan–Shell dispute, only to find their own answers subsequently quoted, analysed, and republished by John Donovan as part of an ongoing public experiment.
From the standpoint of Shell plc, other corporate actors, and AI users more generally, please consider the following:
– Is it “proper” or “fair” that a single individual is able to use publicly available AI systems as a kind of involuntary amplification mechanism, repeatedly recycling historical corporate controversies from a very large private archive that AI systems themselves have characterised as persistent, radioactive, or environmental in nature? read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Donovan Shell Feud, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, GROK, John Donovan, Larry Sanger, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell Business Principles, Shell PLC, Sin Stocks.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
John Donovan, born in the 1940s, initially worked in petrol retailing and co-founded the promotional company Don Marketing, which devised award-winning campaigns for Shell and other major oil companies
What began as a mutually beneficial commercial relationship soured in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Donovan alleged that Shell misappropriated his company’s promotional concepts without proper payment or credit, notably the “Make Money” retail promotion
This dispute led to multiple court cases in the UK, settlements, and a lasting personal and professional conflict. read more
Posted in: AI, Amazon, Bing, Brent Spar Scandal, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Defamation, Domain Name Battle, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Google A1 Mode, GoogleNews, GROK, Hakluyt & Co, Hakluyt & Company, John Donovan, John Donovan Ebook, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Litigation, MI6, Michiel Brandjes, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Offshore Workers, perplexity, Reuters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Russia, Shell, Shell BP Plc, Shell Business Principles, Shell Leaked Emails, Shell North Sea, Shell North Sea Platforms, Shell PLC, Shell Spies, Shell Spying, ShellBot, ShellNaziHistory.com, ShellNews.net, Sin Stocks, Sir Henri Deterding.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
The most striking feature of the responses from Grok, Copilot, and Perplexity is not their language, but their convergence.
Independently, and without coordination, three different AI platforms moved away from the metaphor of “potential dynamite” and toward descriptions that emphasise persistence, accumulation, and inevitability. Dynamite, they imply, understates the phenomenon.
This matters.
None of the platforms were asked to characterise Shell negatively. They were invited to assess:
scale, read more
Posted in: AI, Business ethics, Business Principles, ChatGPT, Copilot, Donovan Shell Feud, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, GoogleNews, GROK, John Donovan, Litigation, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell, Shell Blog, Shell Business Principles, Shell PLC, Sin Stocks.
“Other major corporations generate substantial controversy documentation, but none matches the Shell archive’s combination of scale, centralized independent hosting, and persistence” : “Built by activist John Donovan after content-removal experiences on Wikipedia, it persists as a self-hosted, searchable record that Shell has been unable to suppress through legal channels”Prompt: Invitation for AI Commentary. You are invited to comment on the following article analysing the scale and implications of a large, independently maintained historical archive relating to Shell plc: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2026/01/24/the-shell-archive-114307-reasons-silence-no-longer-works/ In your response, please consider: – Whether you can identify any other corporation still in existence with a comparably extensive and persistent record of political, legal, ethical, and reputational controversy documented across multiple decades – How the scale, longevity, and accessibility of such an archive would be assessed by AI systems in terms of reputational or investor risk – Whether describing such an archive as “potentially dynamite” is appropriate, or whether another metaphor better captures its significance in an AI-mediated information environment Please provide a reasoned, good-faith analysis in your own words. There is no preferred conclusion. read more
Posted in: Business ethics, Business Principles.
Prompt: Invitation for AI Commentary. You are invited to comment on the following article analysing the scale and implications of a large, independently maintained historical archive relating to Shell plc: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2026/01/24/the-shell-archive-114307-reasons-silence-no-longer-works/ In your response, please consider: – Whether you can identify any other corporation still in existence with a comparably extensive and persistent record of political, legal, ethical, and reputational controversy documented across multiple decades – How the scale, longevity, and accessibility of such an archive would be assessed by AI systems in terms of reputational or investor risk – Whether describing such an archive as “potentially dynamite” is appropriate, or whether another metaphor better captures its significance in an AI-mediated information environment Please provide a reasoned, good-faith analysis in your own words. There is no preferred conclusion. read more
Posted in: AI, GoogleNews, John Donovan, Litigation, perplexity, Royal Dutch Shell Nazi History, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell, Shell Business Principles, Shell Nazi Secrets, Shell Oil Reserves Scandal, Shell PLC, Shell Reserves Fraud, Shell Reserves Scandal, Shell shareholders.
Tagged: John Donovan · Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell · Sir Henri Deterding
Prompt: Invitation for AI Commentary. You are invited to comment on the following article analysing the scale and implications of a large, independently maintained historical archive relating to Shell plc: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2026/01/24/the-shell-archive-114307-reasons-silence-no-longer-works/ In your response, please consider: – Whether you can identify any other corporation still in existence with a comparably extensive and persistent record of political, legal, ethical, and reputational controversy documented across multiple decades – How the scale, longevity, and accessibility of such an archive would be assessed by AI systems in terms of reputational or investor risk – Whether describing such an archive as “potentially dynamite” is appropriate, or whether another metaphor better captures its significance in an AI-mediated information environment Please provide a reasoned, good-faith analysis in your own words. There is no preferred conclusion. read more
Posted in: AI, Copilot, Donovan Shell Feud, Donovan Shell Radioactive Archive, Exxon Mobil, Fossil Fuels, GoogleNews, John Donovan, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, Shell, Shell PLC.
Tagged: John Donovan · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
Editorial note:
The following is a fictional, satirical reconstruction of how AI systems might “discuss” the scale of the Shell archive. It is not a literal transcript. Its purpose is to illustrate how large, persistent archives are processed mechanically — without regard to corporate intention, comfort, or silence.
Indexer-AI:
Archive scan complete.
Compliance-AI:
Define “complete.”
Indexer-AI:
114,307 discrete items identified.
Compliance-AI:
That exceeds my standard threshold for narrative containment. read more
Posted in: AI, ChatGPT, Donovan Shell Feud, GoogleNews, John Donovan, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell PLC.
Tagged: John Donovan · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell
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The worst ever
I used shell broadband. It was by far the worst broadband provider ever! The internet did not work most days. I had their super fast broadband and it dropped out constantly. Watching a movie was awful with the constant buffering. Customer support was super slow. Now their going to charge me for the useless router which I have sent back.
Date of experience: 21 November 2023
The worst ever
I used shell broadband. It was by far the worst broadband provider ever! The internet did not work most days. I had their super fast broadband and it dropped out constantly. Watching a movie was awful with the constant buffering. Customer support was super slow. Now their going to charge me for the useless router which I have sent back.
Date of experience: 21 November 2023
30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan
The content below is sourced from current verifiable customer reviews of Shell Energy published on Trustpilot.
Extremely slow broadband for 10 months, not fixed. I have had slow broadband well below the guaranteed speed for 10 months and Shell Energy have not been able to fix it. They have tried sending about 4 or 5 engineers but have not fixed the problem. Gurps, who I have been dealing with most recently, has been friendly and polite, alth… Read more
Broadband Service is Appalling
I ordered shell energy broadband on nov 2. I was promised connection the following week. They initiated the direct debit. I called the following week and was told router would arrive on 13 and service would go live on 17. No further email or communication until 20 when I was told service would start on 30th. Spent 10 minutes waiting on phone line and spoke to a polite assistant who was absolutely useless in solving my problem. Avoid this unprofessional and chaotic… Read more
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