Internet companies including Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc's Google said they will attend the meeting. Google will be represented by general counsel Kent Walker, who will also speak on behalf of a recently formed industry group called the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. Facebook is sending Monika Bickert, head of global policy management, who is expected to make remarks reiterating the companies' commitment to combating online extremism. The European Union has threatened legislation if internet companies do not step up efforts to police what is available on the web. "Industry needs to go further and faster in automating the detection and removal of terrorist content online, and developing technological solutions which prevent it being uploaded in the first place," she will say.

Source: CBC News September 20, 2017 12:46 UTC