"Toxic facts about Shell removed from Wikipedia: How Shell became the most hated brand in the world"

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"Toxic facts about Shell removed from Wikipedia: How Shell became the most hated brand in the world"

Post by Bbb23sucks » Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:20 pm

https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-facts-abou ... B073YSH5PF

Found this book on Amazon and thought was interesting. It appears to be tied to this website: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2021/08/ ... -meltdown/

Edit: The operator of the site - which appears to be a hit site on Shell Oil - has a bunch of Wikipedia criticism on the main site too: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/tag/wikipedia/
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Re: "Toxic facts about Shell removed from Wikipedia: How Shell became the most hated brand in the world"

Post by Philomath » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:35 pm

This is very interesting. I've got some Amazon gift card money right now. I think I'm going to buy this book.

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Re: "Toxic facts about Shell removed from Wikipedia: How Shell became the most hated brand in the world"

Post by Ognistysztorm » Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:18 am

Finally, this one would greatly sway the Reddit hive mind and beyond since people especially youngsters hate fossil fuel companies and worries about climate change nowadays.

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Re: "Toxic facts about Shell removed from Wikipedia: How Shell became the most hated brand in the world"

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:02 pm

Again, like the TJ Coles book, this was self-published. SIX YEARS AGO. And no one noticed (except possibly a few Shell critics). You will find no reviews of it anywhere--not even on Amazon. Good luck getting Redditors to notice.

Most, if not ALL, articles about major oil companies are being paid-edited and warred in a similar way. They are always good places to see commonplace paid accounts quietly removing embarrassments. You should have seen the hell-tsunami from the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the BP employee openly doing happytime edits. I haven't even tried to poke into fossil-fuel editwars in WP except for that one--because numerous "prominent people" were involved in it. All forgotten today "oh well that was ten years ago".

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bp-wikip ... _n_2923363
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/bp_edi ... wikipedia/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ddwe9/ ... edia-pages

And if you find stupid talkpage squabbles funny:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Deep ... /Archive_1
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