Facebook donates £1 million to WWII code-breaking site Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was the site where Alan Turing and a World War II team of code-breakers cracked Germany's Enigma machine and helped save the world from Nazi tyranny. The site is now a popular museum, but it's facing a £2 million ($2.6 million) revenue shortfall due to the loss of tourism caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Facebook has announced that it will donate £1 million to the Bletchley Park Trust charity that runs the site. In a blog post, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer wrote that Facebook felt "lucky" to be involved with the site, and that the company "simply would not exist today" without its achievements. "The work of its most brilliant scientist, Alan Turing, still inspires our tens of thousands of engineers and research scientists today," he added.