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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will donate $1 million to the ADL

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August 17, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center, June 5, 2017. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook pledged that his company will donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League and $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville.

Apple will also match employee donations to these and other groups two-for-one through September, according to a memo Cook wroteWednesday night obtained by Buzzfeed News.

Cook said he strongly disagrees with President Trump’s comparison between the neo-Nazi and white supremacist protesters and those who opposed their rally in Charlottesville.

“Hate is a cancer,” Cook wrote. “This is not about the left or the right, conservative or liberal. It is about human decency and morality.”

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