“I do have a lot of confidence that those companies that are run by patriotic Americans are not interested in seeing their tools or their technology used by terrorists to harm innocent Americans,” Earnest told reporters in Washington before the meeting occurred. “That’s certainly not what they were designed for.”

The meeting was meant to focus on ways to make it harder for terror groups like the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to recruit and radicalize people using the Internet. It was also supposed to focus on ways to promote content that could blunt ISIS messaging.