San Francisco official pushes city to condemn hospital’s Zuckerberg name

A San Francisco city official just introduced a resolution to condemn the city's public hospital for naming itself after Mark Zuckerberg, the latest escalation in a five-year battle led by the hospital's nurses and staff to distance themselves from the controversial Facebook co-founder. The resolution, introduced late yesterday by San Francisco supervisor Gordan Mar, wouldn't strip the hospital of the Zuckerberg name — which was given after he and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, donated $75 million in 2015 — but is a testament to hospital workers' and city officials' anger over the social media platform's seeming inability to control violent and extremist content on its site. “It’s important that we think about alignment with our values, alignment with our rights to privacy with human rights, human dignity — especially the name we ascribe to our city’s only public hospital,” an aide to the legislator who is introducing the resolution tells STAT.