February 01, 2018

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is shirking promises it made to crackdown on the misuse of public lands. Released documents show that the agency has completely shelved planned regulations to root out ranchers engaged in illegal cattle grazing on BLM lands. The internal records show that throughout 2017, the agency’s timeline for implementing the new rules on cattle grazing slipped from “ongoing” to “on hold.” The regulations are now missing entirely from BLM’s 2018 regulatory agenda. The Government Accountability Office previously found that BLM…

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Leaders of a Senate Commerce Subcommittee are asking federal regulators to probe the market for fake Twitter followers in the wake of a New York Times report. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote the Federal Trade Commission earlier this week, lobbying Acting Chair Maureen Ohlhausen to investigate Devumi, a US company that “allegedly uses bots to create fake social media accounts.” “This company seems engaged in unfair or deceptive practices, and we urge you to use all the tools at your disposal…

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