Facebook Data for Research

Facebook provides a variety of data sets for researchers:

Ad Library Tools -a searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook apps and services, including Instagram

CrowdTangle - a tool to follow, analyze, and report on what’s happening across social media. It provides engagement metrics and analytics for public pages, public groups, verified profiles, and public Instagram accounts. Facebook are prioritizing research about: Misinformation / Elections /  Racial justice / COVID-19 / Well-being
Data for Good - tools built from privacy-protected data on the Facebook platform, as well as tools developed using commercially and publicly available sources like satellite imagery and census data.

Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) - enables the academic community to study the impact of Facebook’s products on the world, with a particular focus on elections, democracy, and well-being. FORT data set includes differentially private user-level counts of the number of people who viewed, clicked, liked, commented, shared, or reacted to any URL... on Facebook between January 2017 and July 2019.

https://research.fb.com/data/