US Seeks Help of Tech Companies to Combat Terrorism
Top officials of the Obama administration have met leading Internet companies in Silicon Valley in an effort to build cooperation with them in combating online radicalisation and recruitment by terror groups.
The meeting was attended by the White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Assistant to the President for Counter Terrorism and Homeland Security Lisa Monaco,US Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, among other senior administration officials.
Representatives of a number of leading Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft attended the meeting.
“This meeting confirmed that we are united in our goal to keep terrorists and terror-promoting material off the Internet,” Facebook said in a statement. Spokesmen for several other companies declined comment on the meeting.
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