San Francisco has 11 supervisors, each representing a district, and they are the city's legislative body. (Former supervisor John Avalos also called for it to be changed earlier this year.) It is a sign that Facebook and Zuckerberg's brand have become increasingly unpopular and points to how the consequences of the Silicon Valley giant's mounting scandals may impact the CEO's image. This is the first time a sitting San Francisco supervisor has spoken out in support of renaming the hospital, Peskin's chief of staff said. “What message does it send when we are willing to brand our public facilities in exchange for one-time donations, while the entities behind those one-time donations turn around and oppose even the most modest taxes, which - when allocated to our general fund - actually give the citizens of San Francisco oversight for how those funds are spent,” Peskin said. Critics of the name have previously noted that city residents approved an $887 million bond measure in 2008 to support the hospital, but weren’t given any input into changing the hospital’s name. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donated $75 million to the institution in 2015 in exchange for naming rights. The protest followed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It comes after a protest earlier this year by nurses working at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center - commonly referred to as just the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - over the attachment of the Facebook CEO’s name to the institution. On Tuesday, San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin asked the city attorney to “outline the procedure for the removal of the Zuckerberg name from San Francisco General Hospital” and to revisit the city’s policy on offering naming rights in exchange for gifts, according to a copy of his remarks provided to Business Insider. Earlier this year, nurses at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital protested the facility's attachment to the CEO's name.Ī San Francisco politician is pushing to have Mark Zuckerberg’s name removed from the hospital to which he donated $75 million in response to Facebook’s recent scandals.It's the first time a sitting San Francisco politician has called for the removal of the Zuckerberg name, and it signals the Facebook brand's decreasing popularity.San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin has asked the city attorney to look into getting Mark Zuckerberg's name removed from a hospital to which he donated $75 million.
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