Subj : Re: Done with them?
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Brian Klauss
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 03:58 pm

  Re: Re: Done with them?
  By: Aaron Thomas to Ron Lauzon on Mon Jan 25 2021 04:49 pm

 > I follow Ted Nugent on Facebook.

I'm sorry.

 > He was complaining about the Keystone Pipeline cancellation costing
 > 10,000 jobs in the midst of the pandemic, and Facebook butts in to say
 > "Independent fact-checkers indicate this informtion is misleading."

According to the NRDC, "...the project would require fewer than 2,000 two-year construction jobs and that number of jobs would hover around 35 after construction."  Obviously, the bias from the NRDC may provide skewed numbers yet the Austin American-Statesman reports, "TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden's executive order. The 11,000 and $2 billion figures cited in the Facebook post are estimates published by the company, but most of the jobs would be temporary."

 > I'm sick of "fact-checkers." They should be called "Fact-arguers." Nobody
 > can "fact-check" job losses at Keystone except for the HR department at
 > Keystone. But Facebook will have people believing that Politico knows more
 > about it than Keystone.

Actually, any project performed by a large corporation will expose the need to look at the number of employees needed for a project.  In the case of Keystone XL, they need a large number temporary labor to build the pipeline while the need for that labor will dry up the minute the project is complete.  Therefore, the only laborers needed for the job would be for maintenance operations, which follows, accurately, the numbers provided by the NRDC.

I'm happy to see Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms providing a fact-checking opportunity.  It allows people who express "alternative facts" to be given an opportunity to either correct them, demonstrate that they are providing an opinion, or that they are simply communicating from their nether-regions.

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