Welcome to Start the Week, our Monday scene-setter for the week ahead.

Metacrisis

Today:

* Facebook pulls of of the news ecosystem, setting up a confrontation for parent company Meta

* Looking ahead to this week’s Future of TV Advertising conference as the industry’s measurement divisions widen

Further reading:

* Unmade: The wheels fall off for news

* Australian Financial Review: Onerous demands and threats: Inside Facebook’s secret media deals

* Australian Financial Review: Michael Miller - The time has come for parliament to fire its cannon – at Meta

* Brisbane Times: Albanese government furious over Meta’s plan to pull out of Facebook news deal

* Capital Brief: Meta shuts the door on Australian news publishers, putting deals worth $70m at risk

* The Australian: Meta’s dumping of content deals with publishers will cost jobs, says Country Press Australia

* Future of TV Advertising Sydney: Agenda

Today’s episode features Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy

Time to leave you to start your week.

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