White House summons tech, social media firms after shootings

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, May 8, 2019 [Photo, Courtesy].

White House officials and big social media companies met on Friday to talk about how to curb extremism online after two mass shootings last weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio.

After the shootings, US President Donald Trump laid blame on the internet and social media for providing places “to radicalize disturbed minds” and called on the Justice Department to work with companies “to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike.”