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It began as a debate between humans and machines — and ended as a public test of what happens when decades of contested corporate history meet the imperfect logic of today’s most advanced language models. Background / Overview John Donovan’s long-running public campaign against Royal Dutch Shell...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public flashpoint that crystallises three decades of commercial disputes, a sprawling online archive of leaked documents, and an...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far...