Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft have said they will ramp up efforts to fight terrorist content after a meeting with the Home Secretary.
The companies pledged to increasingly share best practice and work together on technical tools to spot and take down extremist propaganda.
Tech firms such as Facebook have been criticised for not doing enough to prevent terror-related content.
The issue was brought to the fore again in the days after the Westminster atrocity after it emerged 'terror handbooks' on how to launch an attack were easily available on the internet.
Khalid Masood was also revealed to have been on WhatsApp minutes before starting his rampage.
The app - which was not represented at the meeting - uses 'end to end' encryption, which it says means that neither it nor the authorities can read Masood's messages.
After the summit with Home Secretary Amber Rudd, the tech bosses said they would "encourage the further development of technical tools to identify and remove terrorist propaganda".
"Companies apply unique content policies and have developed - and continue to develop - techniques appropriate for or unique to their own platforms," they said.
"Nonetheless, there is a significant opportunity to share the knowledge gained in these varied efforts to develop innovative solutions."
They also said they would look at creating a new forum to work together more and boost the sharing of best practice.
"Each of our companies also commits to urgently improve that collaboration," they said.
The four firms will also give more support to newer tech businesses on how to fight terrorist material.
Speaking after the summit, the Home Secretary said she wanted social networks and internet firms to take a more pro-active role "to go further and faster in not only removing online terrorist content but stopping it going up in the first place".
Ms Rudd said it was also important that smaller and emerging services got support from the big industry players to stop terrorists using them as an alternative.
She last week accused tech firms of giving terrorists a "place to hide".
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