Microsoft has accepted an invitation from the UN Security Council to address a particular discussion next week on counterterrorism and facing “digital terror”, UN diplomats said.

The ministerial-level discussion on Wednesday is formed by Egypt, which holds this month’s presidency of the 15-member council.

It is going to be the very first time a technology firm will address the Security Council, which has been worried by using social media and the Internet to disperse violent extremism.

A spokesman for Microsoft affirmed that a representative of the software giant will participate in the special session, but declined to give details.

An UN panel of experts in June called for social and Internet media firms to react to using their services by other extremists and Islamic State recruiters.

IS recruiters have made informed use of social media and the Internet to develop the pool of foreign combatants of the group.

About 30,000 foreign combatants have flocked to Syria, other and Iraq nations to join the ranks of jihadists.