Happening now —

A spirited debate over whether the city of San Francisco should officially condemn having Mark Zuckerberg's name on one of its public hospitals.

A vote is expected today before a San Francisco government panel, the Committee on Government Audit and Oversight.
Supervisor @D4GordonMar:

"San Francisco's only public hospital should not bear the name of a person responsible for endangering public health in our country and around the world — and yet it does."
@D4GordonMar This is basically turning into a community pop-off session on Zuckerberg, who gave $75 million to create the hospital in 2015.

"I've been a nurse since you were children," one person says of Zuck.

Another called him a "rich, amoral egotist who runs an extraction corporation."
@D4GordonMar Here's @KimMeredith1, the CEO of San Francisco General Hospital, making the counter-argument:

"This resolution of condemnation on the naming of SFGH has the potential of unintended consequences and a chilling effect on past, present, and future gifts to the city."
@D4GordonMar @KimMeredith1 Just in —

A San Francisco government panel unanimously recommends to the full board of supervisors that the city officially condemn the naming of its public hospital after Mark Zuckerberg.

The full board will vote on the matter later this month.
@D4GordonMar @KimMeredith1 Context here is that San Francisco is NOT renaming the hospital, which might've required returning the $75 million, which folks don't want to do.

Instead, the city is officially "condemning" it.

Here's the language. Image
A reminder that today's vote on the Zuckerberg hospital is purely symbolic.

The hospital cannot legally change its name for 50 years. This is what the gift agreement looks like. Image
New this evening —

Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city wants to condemn him anyway.

Today's vote is the latest flashpoint in the debate over the proper role for billionaire philanthropy.

vox.com/recode/2020/12…
By the way, this isn't the first time that Mark Zuckerberg's corporate work has boomeranged negatively on his philanthropic work.

I wrote this piece this summer about how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is affected by what happens at Facebook.

vox.com/recode/2020/6/…
I knew I had seen this reporting before but couldn’t find it on deadline the other day.

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly never wanted his name on the hospital in the first place!

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