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San Francisco board condemns naming of local hospital for Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan after they gave $75m toward a new trauma center
San Francisco supervisors approved resolution Tuesday condemning the naming of city s public hospital for Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan
The San Francisco General Hospital was renamed for the couple in 2015 after they couple donated $75million to help fund a new treatment center
Resolution doesn t have force of law and does not require hospital to do anything
But officials said it sends the message that San Francisco is not for sale
Officials said hospital that caters to poor shouldn t have name of anyone whose platform endangers public health, spreads misinformation and violates privacy
San Francisco may condemn naming hospital for Facebook CEO
by Janie Har, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 15, 2020 2:22 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 2:28 pm EDT
A Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center sign is shown in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Supervisors in San Francisco will vote on a nonbinding and symbolic resolution to condemn the naming of the city s public general hospital for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 after he and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, donated $75 million for a new trauma center. Supporters of a condemnation say the Facebook co-founder and CEO has endangered public health and threatened democracy with a platform that spreads misinformation and invaded people s privacy. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
The measure passed 10-1, with Board President Norman Yee the only no vote.
He said nonprofits often use naming rights to spur donations and while this involved city property, he could not support the condemnation without more of a policy discussion.
Yee said he would support a move to remove Zuckerberg’s name and retain Dr. Chan’s name on the hospital. He was among several supervisors behind the 2015 resolution that approved the gift and name change.
San Francisco, where Zuckerberg and Chan have a home, has increasingly soured on the social media behemoth, dismayed by the company s sluggish response to protecting consumer privacy and halting the proliferation of false statements. The federal government is seeking to break up Facebook as lawmakers call for stronger oversight of a company they say has gotten too big.
Unable to Actually Change the Hospital s Name, SF Supervisors to Pass Resolution Condemning the Zuckerberg Part of SF General
Unlike some publications around town, SFist mostly still calls the hospital SF General, because Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital or, technically, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is just an awkward mouthful. But the SF Board of Supervisors was expected to pass a non-binding resolution Tuesday to condemn the renaming of the hospital five years after the renaming took place.
Back in July we heard that at least two supervisors, Gordon Mar and Matt Haney, were agitating to have the Zuckerberg-Chans removed from the public hospital s name, and talk of this goes back several years. It s, of course, been a bad few years in the press for Facebook and Zuckerberg. And while people might have winced a little at the renaming of the hospital back in 2015 when the mega-billionaire couple donated $75 m