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Facebook themselves say they don't.

My understanding is that Facebook act as the 'ad broker' themselves, as opposed to selling the data on to third-party ad brokers.

Nobody outside of Facebook has any way of knowing. That’s the problem.

Uh, anyone that bought data from Facebook would know. And people they spoke to about selling data.

FB monetizes data by letting people use it for ad targeting, not by selling it.