and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).

It doesn’t, or else there would be a lot more sightings all over Europe, South Korea and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Saudi Arabia and various emirates, and a good junk of China.

Also, smartphones didn’t exist for the first 101 years of the reporting time span.

Yup.

Facebook has been around for almost two decades.

This is not some unknown guy - we know exactly what Facebook’s business strategy and ethical and moral conduct looks like.