Scandal-hit Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could have his name removed from San Francisco General hospital after a city supervisor claimed the company does not serve the public interest anymore.
The hospital was named after the tech giant following a $75 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015.
However, supervisor Aaron Peskin has now asked City Attorney Dennis Herrera to draft legislation to remove Zuckerberg's name following the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other controversies that have plagued the Facebook boss.
The removal of Zuckerberg's name would also chance the way that the city names its public institutions.
San Francisco General Hospital was named after Mark Zuckerberg following a $75 million donation in 2015
As well as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook' hiring of a Republican-affiliated firm to criticise and smear its opponents has come under scrutiny.
Peskin told The Times: 'I really want this City to re-assess the value of giving up these naming rights and the message this sends relative to our role as stewards of the public trust.
'More than just about naming rights, this is about the integrity of institutions and spaces that are overwhelmingly funded by the public and which exist to serve the public.'
Lawmakers will allow the public 30 days to comment before the legislation is put to a vote.
If Zuckerberg's name is removed from the hospital, then it throws into question his original donation also.
City officials are yet to decide what would happen to the money.
The Facebook CEO has faced a string of scandals recently and now may have his named removed from the hospital
Politicians from around the world said they were 'deeply disappointed' at Zuckerberg and posted a picture of his empty chair on the internet when he refused to appear before them at the UK Houses of Parliament on November 27.
The Facebook boss was 'empty chaired' when he snubbed a special meeting of politicians from nine different countries who want to grill him on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, privacy breaches and the spread of disinformation.
Mr Zuckerberg refused to appear before the committee despite being invited six months ago, and sent British Facebook executive and peer Richard Allan in his place.
And during the hearing of the 'grand committee' at the Commons, British politician Damian Collins revealed a Facebook engineer in 2014 warned bosses that Russians were harvesting three billion bits of data a day.
The politicians from nine different countries posted this photograph of Mark Zuckerberg's empty chair (pictured) on Twitter after being left furious at the Facebook boss' refusal to give evidence to them in the UK Parliament
The Facebook boss sent Richard Allan, a Lib Dem peer and senior Facebook executive, in his place to face the furious politicians (pictured)
The revelation, which was contained in an internal Facebook email within a cache of secret documents seized by the committee last week and still under seal in the US, raises fresh questions about the firm's privacy breaches.
Another controversy saw Zuckerberg refuse to resign on November 21 over revelations that Facebook knew about Russian election interference despite denying it and used lobby firms to smear critics.
It was revealed that Facebook deliberately misled the public about what it knew about the Kremlin's 2016 election tampering.
In 2016, Zuckerberg described the notion of Russian interference as 'crazy.'
The tech giant also employed a 'research firm' to smear protesters by linking them to George Soros and a lobby firm to brand critics anti-Semites.
Sandberg, formerly of the Clinton administration and Google, was savaged in the Times article which accused her of cinical lobbying of politicians from both sides of the House
When asked if he would consider stepping down as chairman Zuckerberg told CNN Business 'That's not the plan.'
He also defended Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who has drawn criticism over her aggressive denial and distract strategy.
Sandberg, formerly of the Clinton administration and Google, has come out of the New York Times' report as an unscrupulous marketing tactician.
As Zuckerberg toured the world with a meek apology spiel, titled 'We Get It' in internal memos, Sandberg carried out a belligerent damage limitation effort.
Sandberg used her contacts in Washington to fight for her and wooed others who had been convinced it was a politically left-wing outfit.
Facebook has stumbled from one mess to another this year as it grappled with continuing fallout from Russia's use of the platform to interfere in the US presidential election.
In late September they disclosed a massive data breach which affected 50 million users - including accounts of Zuckerberg and Sandberg.
That bombshell came after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which user data was harnessed in a bid to help Donald Trump during his Presidential election.
FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY DISASTERS
Facebook in late September disclosed that it had been hit by its worst ever data breach, affecting 50 million users - including those of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Attackers exploited the site's 'View As' feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to other users.
The unknown attackers took advantage of a feature in the code called 'Access Tokens,' to take over people's accounts, potentially giving hackers access to private messages, photos and posts - although Facebook said there was no evidence that had been done.
The hackers also tried to harvest people's private information, including name, sex and hometown, from Facebook's systems.
Facebook said it doesn't yet know if information from the affected accounts has been misused or accessed, and is working with the FBI to conduct further investigations.
However, Mark Zuckerberg assured users that passwords and credit card information was not accessed.
Facebook says it has found no evidence 'so far' that hackers broke into third-party apps after a data breach exposed 50 million users (stock image)
As a result of the breach, the firm logged roughly 90 million people out of their accounts earlier today as a security measure.
Facebook made headlines earlier this year after the data of 87 million users was improperly accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy.
The disclosure has prompted government inquiries into the company's privacy practices across the world, and fueled a '#deleteFacebook' movement among consumers.
Communications firm Cambridge Analytica had offices in London, New York, Washington, as well as Brazil and Malaysia.
The company boasts it can 'find your voters and move them to action' through data-driven campaigns and a team that includes data scientists and behavioural psychologists.
'Within the United States alone, we have played a pivotal role in winning presidential races as well as congressional and state elections,' with data on more than 230 million American voters, Cambridge Analytica claims on its website.
The company profited from a feature that meant apps could ask for permission to access your own data as well as the data of all your Facebook friends.
The data firm suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix (pictured), after recordings emerged of him making a series of controversial claims, including boasts that Cambridge Analytica had a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump
This meant the company was able to mine the information of 87 million Facebook users even though just 270,000 people gave them permission to do so.
This was designed to help them create software that can predict and influence voters' choices at the ballot box.
The data firm suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, after recordings emerged of him making a series of controversial claims, including boasts that Cambridge Analytica had a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump.
This information is said to have been used to help the Brexit campaign in the UK.
It has also suffered several previous issues.
2013, Facebook disclosed a software flaw that exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers for a year, while a technical glitch in 2008 revealed confidential birth-dates on 80 million Facebook users' profiles.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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