{"id":68727,"date":"2026-03-05T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/tech-investors-sue-trump-administration-accusing-it-of-violating-tiktok-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:37:23","slug":"tech-investors-sue-trump-administration-accusing-it-of-violating-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/tech-investors-sue-trump-administration-accusing-it-of-violating-tiktok-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech investors sue Trump administration, accusing it of violating TikTok ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A pair of tech investors, with the legal backing of a former Justice Department prosecutor, have filed a civil lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of failing to enforce a law that required TikTok to either separate from its China-based owner or face a ban in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-page lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals, asked the court to declare that the administration&#8217;s multiple extensions to forestall the shutdown of TikTok last year were unlawful. President Trump instead opted multiple times to grant extensions. It also argues a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tiktok-deal-ban-oracle\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deal that was cut earlier this year<\/a><\/span> for new investors to take over TikTok&#8217;s U.S. operations did not comply with the law.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are ZhaoCheng Tan and Garrett Reid, who are investors in Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They argue in their lawsuit: &#8220;Such relentless violation of the law has harmed petitioners, who have invested in companies that compete with TikTok&#8217;s American operations. When the illegal sale was announced, petitioners suffered financially. By sanctioning an unlawful deal, the government has created a legal impediment to petitioners&#8217; financial recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Ballou, a Justice Department prosecutor who is handling the lawsuit against the department, told CBS News his clients have &#8220;experienced a direct and very real financial harm.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law, which was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court, made it unlawful for app stores to offer updates or new downloads after the Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest from TikTok. But while negotiations to divest TikTok took place, Mr. Trump issued a series of executive orders every few months directing the Justice Department not to penalize the tech companies who host TikTok on their platforms, keeping the app widely available.<\/p>\n<p>The law only allowed the president to grant a single 90-day extension if there was &#8220;evidence of significant progress&#8221; toward a deal that complied with the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>A year after the deadline, TikTok announced in January 2026 a new U.S.-based entity had been formed to take over the app&#8217;s operations for American users. The joint venture was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tiktok-deal-ban-oracle\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">made up mostly<\/a><\/span> of investors based in the United States, with ByteDance retaining 19.9% of the company, just below the 20% cap allowed under the law.<\/p>\n<p>In their lawsuit, Tan and Reid argue the deal &#8220;facially violated the TikTok Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, under the deal, TikTok U.S. would not own the app&#8217;s recommendation algorithm,&#8221; the plaintiffs wrote. &#8220;Rather, ByteDance would continue to own the algorithm, which it would license to TikTok U.S. In turn, TikTok U.S. would simply &#8216;retrain, test, and update&#8217; the algorithm on user data stored in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The law requires TikTok U.S. to have no &#8220;operational relationship&#8221; with ByteDance, including cooperation on the content recommendation algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also argued &#8220;the deal the President approved rewarded allies.&#8221; The suit said some of the investors in the new deal include firms or executives who &#8220;have close ties to the President, and have at times personally enriched him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those investors include Oracle, which was founded by billionaire Larry Ellison, whom Mr. Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/remarks-exchange-with-reporters-aboard-air-force-one-en-route-miami-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">described in the past<\/a> as a &#8220;friend.&#8221; The lawsuit pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/technology\/trump-larry-ellison-tiktok-oracle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> that a &#8220;$100,000-per-person&#8221; Trump fundraiser was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oracle-billionaire-larry-ellison-is-fundraising-for-donald-trump-2020-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hosted at Ellison&#8217;s home<\/a> in 2020. (Larry Ellison&#8217;s son, David Ellison, is the chairman &amp; CEO of Paramount Skydance, which is the parent company of CBS News. The Ellison Family owns a controlling interest in Paramount Skydance.)<\/p>\n<p>It also mentions TikTok investors Susquehanna International Group and General Atlantic, whose leaders have donated to pro-Trump super PACs. And it points to Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX, which <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-family-net-worth-crypto-investments\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">struck a deal last year<\/a><\/span> that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-pardon-of-crypto-billionaire-sparks-concerns-over-use-of-pardon-power-60-minutes-transcript\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">involved buying $2 billion<\/a><\/span> worth of a cryptocurrency issued by a Trump family-affiliated company.<\/p>\n<p>Ballou, the lead attorney in the case, now serves on the Washington, D.C.-based Public Integrity Project. The organization&#8217;s home page said it seeks to raise &#8220;the cost of corruption in America by suing the people, companies, and countries that seek to bribe government officials, as well as the government officials who seek to be bribed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice said they had no further comment. 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