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San Francisco officials passed a resolution Tuesday night naming a local hospital after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan is sentenced.
San Francisco General Hospital was renamed Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in 2015 after the couple donated $ 75 million to help fund a new treatment center. However, local officials became increasingly critical of the name change in recent years as Facebook took a critical look at its business practices and approach to user data privacy.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 in favor of the resolution. The vote was not binding and the hospital is not required to reverse the name change.
“There is growing public outcry over the name of this important public health institution and the naming rights have been sold to the highest bidder and to someone as controversial as Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook,” supervisor Gordon Mar said of the resolution.
The full board voted on the resolution after a referral from the government’s three-person audit and oversight committee. Board Chairman Norman Yee was the only member to vote against the resolution, but noted that he would support efforts to reverse the name change.
Kim Meredith, CEO of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, said the Zuckerbergs’ donation had helped fund necessary equipment upgrades at the facility.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | Change | Change% |
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| FB | FACEBOOK INC. | 275.55 | +1.36 | + 0.50% |
“We are proud that the hospital now bears their name and disappointed in attempts to condemn it – especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the impact of their donation has never been greater,” Meredith said in a statement.
The current naming rights agreement has a term of 50 years.
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Facebook is the subject of several ongoing antitrust cases. A bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general filed a lawsuit earlier this month accusing the social media giant of establishing an “illegal monopoly” through anti-competitive business practices.
In a separate lawsuit, the Federal Trade Commission sued to end Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.