Research Tools: Facebook Introduces the Ad Archive API

From the Facebook Newsroom:

We’re making advertising more transparent to help prevent abuse on Facebook, especially during elections. Today we’re starting to roll out the Ad Archive API, so researchers and journalists can more easily analyze Facebook ads related to politics or issues of national importance.
Beginning with a group of publishers, academics and researchers in the US, we’ll learn what’s most useful and how to improve the API before opening it up more broadly. Input from this group will also form the basis of an Archive report that will be available starting in September.
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If you’d like to access the API, please submit this form and we’ll respond after this initial test.

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See Also: Searchable Archive of Facebook and Instagram Ads With Political Content Goes Live (May 24, 2018)

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