In case you were wondering about Meta's estimated lifetime value of (profit from) a 13-year-old child: $270 per teen.
So they're doing all of this heinous stuff to impressionable young minds, knowingly and willfully, because they know Mark Zuckerberg demands the metrics go up at all costs, in order to squeeze a few extra $ from a revenue model where they could offer a non-ad-supported tier for a few $ per month and come out ahead *and* they wouldn't have to get their users hooked on their apps.