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Adam Kovacevich

Founder & CEO, Chamber of Progress · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Kovacevich founded and leads Chamber of Progress, a center-left tech industry policy coalition. Prior to launching the organization in 2021, he led U.S. public policy and external affairs at Google for twelve years and headed government relations for Lime.

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2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 3 opinions · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported
Kovacevich: FTC and DOJ divided Big Tech targets rather than subject matter
“What happened was about six years ago, the FTC and the Justice Department, they share responsibility for antitrust. They got together and they said, they basically struck a deal and they said, okay, FTC, you get Meta and Amazon and DOJ, you get Google and Appl…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:21 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN

Everything Adam Kovacevich said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Kovacevich: Federal antitrust agencies targeted Big Tech companies before finding violations
“I think what happened in those cases was like, they had the target in mind and then they worked to find a case they could bring. Right. And so I think that's why, like, you know, these cases have like varying degrees of strength to them because they started wi…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:52 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Opinion
Kovacevich: Supreme Court's Trinko precedent challenges the Google antitrust ruling
“One of the big cases, that's a challenge for the court here is this case called Trinco, which is old, old Supreme court precedent, which basically has to do with what's called the duty to deal, which basically says like you as a customer, you as a business, ev…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 11:16 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Assertion Supported
Kovacevich: FTC and DOJ divided Big Tech targets rather than subject matter
“What happened was about six years ago, the FTC and the Justice Department, they share responsibility for antitrust. They got together and they said, they basically struck a deal and they said, okay, FTC, you get Meta and Amazon and DOJ, you get Google and Appl…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:21 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Opinion
Kovacevich: FTC faces an uphill battle in Meta antitrust trial
“And frankly, I think the FTC has a really tough case there.”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 17:20 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Assertion Supported
Kovacevich: Court found Google held ad tech monopolies and illegally tied products
“And there were some points for Google, but it was mostly a loss for them. The court found that they had improperly tied some of their ad tech products together and they have a monopoly position And what's called the ad, ad exchange, as well as the ad server, w…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 2:02 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kovacevich: Google, Meta, and OpenAI will lead US against China in AI
“Well, like, who do you think is going to do that? It's going to be Google, Meta, OpenAI, right? It's going to be those companies, right?”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 20:56 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
Assertion Partly supported
Kovacevich: Google's network ad revenue fell from 16% to 11%
“This is part of what's called their network business, which is basically like serving ads on other people's websites. This is the part of Google's business that's actually shrinking. So it was like, 16% of their business, like five years ago, and now it's down…”
Adam Kovacevich Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 4:54 Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN Apr 28, 2025 13m
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