Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft representatives will discuss concerns about online radicalization and jihadist propaganda with EU officials at an informal dinner today.

The dinner attendees will discuss challenges posed by terrorists’ use of the Internet and possible responses, the European Commission said. They will also discuss tools and techniques to respond to terrorist online activities, with particular regard to the development of specific “counter-narrative initiatives,” which are attempts to respond to the ideology of militant groups, commission spokesman Michele Cercone said.

The tech companies will meet commission representatives and ministers of the 28 EU member states in Luxembourg.

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