British minister to push Silicon Valley on countering militants

Rudd will meet executives of social media and Internet service providers in San Francisco at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.

LONDON: Britain's interior minister will use a visit to Silicon Valley to ask the world's biggest social media and internet service providers to step up efforts to counter or remove content that incites militants. 

After four militant attacks in Britain which killed 36 people this year, senior ministers have repeatedly demanded that Internet companies do more to suppress extremist content and allow access to encrypted communications.