Google Play’s Ongoing TikTok Downloads Spur Investor Lawsuit (1)

Alphabet Inc.'s leaders may have exposed it to significant legal risk by continuing to distribute TikTok through its Google Play app store, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

An investor sued the tech giant for documents, saying it was unwise to restore TikTok based solely on President Donald Trump’s executive order pledging not to enforce a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app. Google delisted TikTok in January, after the US Supreme Court upheld the federal law banning it, but restored it in February, about three weeks after Trump issued the order on the first day of his second term. ...