Social media platforms generate billions of dollars in revenue from U.S. youth: Findings from a simulated revenue model

• Amanda Raffoul ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amanda.raffoul@childrens.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-4999

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• Zachary J. Ward,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Monique Santoso,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jill R. Kavanaugh,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• S. Bryn Austin

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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