Silicon Valley Summit at the White House to Discuss Terrorism

Nerds unite!

With thwarting terrorism at the top of every elected official’s to-do list, the White House is bringing together the nation’s leaders of the most influential digital properties on the planet.

Apple CEO Tim Cook will be joining executives from Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox, and Google (or Alphabet, Inc).

The geek squad will be presenting to: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, presidential counterterrorism advisor Lisa Monaco, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, National Intelligence Director James Clapper and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers will participate in the meeting.

In other words, this is an important get-together.

An agenda obtained by The Washington Post indicates that the meeting will center around ways to make it harder for terrorists to leverage the internet to radicalize followers, as well as the use of technology to identify recruitment patterns.

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