2026年3月5日 / 美国东部时间下午12:56 / CBS新闻
作者：斯科特·麦克法兰（Scott MacFarlane），司法记者
斯科特·麦克法兰是CBS新闻的司法记者。他已报道华盛顿新闻二十余年，荣获20项艾美奖和爱德华·R·默罗奖。他的报道直接促成了五项新法律的通过。
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两名科技投资者在一位前司法部检察官的法律支持下，提起民事诉讼，指控特朗普政府未能执行一项要求TikTok与其中国母公司剥离或面临美国禁令的法律。
这份33页的诉讼于周四在华盛顿特区巡回上诉法院提起，要求法院宣布政府去年多次延长TikTok禁令以阻止其被关停的行为违法。特朗普总统反而多次选择批准延长。诉讼还辩称，今年早些时候达成的新投资者收购TikTok美国业务的协议不符合法律规定。
原告是赵诚谭（ZhaoCheng Tan）和加勒特·里德（Garrett Reid），分别是谷歌母公司Alphabet Inc.和Facebook母公司Meta Platforms的投资者。
他们在诉讼中表示：”这种对法律的无情违反已经损害了请愿人，他们投资了与TikTok美国业务竞争的公司。非法交易宣布时，请愿人遭受了财务损失。政府批准非法交易，为请愿人的财务恢复制造了法律障碍。”
负责起诉司法部的司法部检察官布兰登·巴卢（Brendan Ballou）告诉CBS新闻，他的当事人”遭受了直接且非常实际的财务损害”。
这项法律得到最高法院一致支持，规定在2025年1月19日字节跳动剥离TikTok的截止日期后，应用商店不得提供更新或新下载。但在剥离谈判期间，特朗普先生每隔几个月就发布一系列行政命令，指示司法部不要处罚在其平台上托管TikTok的科技公司，使该应用程序得以广泛使用。
该法律仅允许总统在”有证据表明达成符合立法的交易取得重大进展”的情况下，批准单次90天的延期。
截止日期一年后，TikTok于2026年1月宣布成立一家新的美国实体，接管该应用在美国用户的运营。该合资企业主要由美国投资者组成，字节跳动保留了19.9%的公司股份，略低于法律允许的20%上限。
谭和里德在诉讼中辩称，该交易”表面上违反了TikTok法”。
“首先，根据该协议，TikTok美国公司不会拥有该应用的推荐算法，”原告写道，”相反，字节跳动将继续拥有该算法，并将其许可给TikTok美国公司。反过来，TikTok美国公司将只是’根据存储在美国的用户数据对算法进行再训练、测试和更新’。”
该法律要求TikTok美国公司与字节跳动没有”运营关系”，包括在内容推荐算法方面的合作。
诉讼还辩称，”总统批准的这项交易奖励了盟友”。诉讼称，新交易中的一些投资者包括与总统关系密切，有时甚至个人从中获利的公司或高管。
这些投资者包括甲骨文公司（Oracle），该公司由亿万富翁拉里·埃里森（Larry Ellison）创立，特朗普过去曾称其为”朋友”。诉讼指出，有报道称2020年在埃里森家中举办了一场”每人10万美元”的特朗普筹款活动。（拉里·埃里森的儿子大卫·埃里森是派拉蒙天空舞蹈公司（Paramount Skydance）的董事长兼首席执行官，该公司是CBS新闻的母公司。埃里森家族持有派拉蒙天空舞蹈公司的控股权。）
诉讼还提到TikTok投资者Susquehanna国际集团和General Atlantic，其领导人向支持特朗普的超级政治行动委员会（PAC）捐款。诉讼还提到总部位于阿布扎比的投资公司MGX，该公司去年达成了一项涉及购买价值20亿美元、由特朗普家族关联公司发行的加密货币的交易。
此案的首席律师巴卢目前在华盛顿特区的公共诚信项目（Public Integrity Project）任职。该组织的主页称，其目标是通过起诉试图贿赂政府官员以及寻求被贿赂的政府官员的个人、公司和国家，”提高美国腐败的成本”。
美国司法部表示没有进一步置评。甲骨文公司拒绝置评CBS新闻。Susquehanna、MGX、General Atlantic和TikTok均未回应CBS新闻的置评请求。
Tech investors sue Trump administration, accusing it of violating TikTok ban
March 5, 2026 / 12:56 PM EST / CBS News
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Scott MacFarlane Justice Correspondent
Scott MacFarlane is CBS News’ Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of five new laws.
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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.
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’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 deal that was cut earlier this year for new investors to take over TikTok’s U.S. operations did not comply with the law.
The plaintiffs are ZhaoCheng Tan and Garrett Reid, who are investors in Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms, respectively.
They argue in their lawsuit: “Such relentless violation of the law has harmed petitioners, who have invested in companies that compete with TikTok’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’ financial recovery.”
Brendan Ballou, a Justice Department prosecutor who is handling the lawsuit against the department, told CBS News his clients have “experienced a direct and very real financial harm.”
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.
The law only allowed the president to grant a single 90-day extension if there was “evidence of significant progress” toward a deal that complied with the legislation.
A year after the deadline, TikTok announced in January 2026 a new U.S.-based entity had been formed to take over the app’s operations for American users. The joint venture was made up mostly of investors based in the United States, with ByteDance retaining 19.9% of the company, just below the 20% cap allowed under the law.
In their lawsuit, Tan and Reid argue the deal “facially violated the TikTok Law.”
“First, under the deal, TikTok U.S. would not own the app’s recommendation algorithm,” the plaintiffs wrote. “Rather, ByteDance would continue to own the algorithm, which it would license to TikTok U.S. In turn, TikTok U.S. would simply ‘retrain, test, and update’ the algorithm on user data stored in the United States.”
The law requires TikTok U.S. to have no “operational relationship” with ByteDance, including cooperation on the content recommendation algorithm.
The suit also argued “the deal the President approved rewarded allies.” The suit said some of the investors in the new deal include firms or executives who “have close ties to the President, and have at times personally enriched him.”
Those investors include Oracle, which was founded by billionaire Larry Ellison, whom Mr. Trump has described in the past as a “friend.” The lawsuit pointed to reports that a “$100,000-per-person” Trump fundraiser was hosted at Ellison’s home in 2020. (Larry Ellison’s son, David Ellison, is the chairman & CEO of Paramount Skydance, which is the parent company of CBS News. The Ellison Family owns a controlling interest in Paramount Skydance.)
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 struck a deal last year that involved buying $2 billion worth of a cryptocurrency issued by a Trump family-affiliated company.
Ballou, the lead attorney in the case, now serves on the Washington, D.C.-based Public Integrity Project. The organization’s home page said it seeks to raise “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.”
The Department of Justice said they had no further comment. Oracle declined to comment to CBS News. Susquehanna, MGX, General Atlantic and TikTok did not respond to CBS News’ request for comment.
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