The U.S. can no longer deny that ISIS has perfected its propaganda. If it is going to stop the terrorist organization from recruiting more people, the government needs to improve our own propaganda machine.

Obama’s counterterrorism advisors met with Mark Boal, award-winning screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and executives of HBO, Snapchat and MBC to discuss “how to engage and empower storytellers [to] create alternative and positive narratives, and how to talk about youth empowerment,” a State department official told the media.

The White House’s choice to work with Mark Boal is controversial yet fitting. The screenwriter wrote The Hurt Locker, an award-winning film that made great entertainment but did not realistically portray war or the military. Boal also worked with the CIA and the military to make the more accurate Zero Dark Thirty, and he is currently working with Serial to investigate Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s infamous disappearance. For better or for worse, Boal knows how to package military stories to the masses, and unfortunately that could mean sacrificing accuracy.

Boal hasn’t confirmed whether or not he is on board with the White House’s plan, but we wouldn’t be surprised if he did. As the Daily Beast explains, Hollywood and the military often work together to produce high-earning movies with a pro-military slant.

The State Department working with allies in Hollywood to undermine foreign enemies is hardly a new concept. In the early 1950s, the State Department collaborated with dozens of Hollywood filmmakers to create roughly 400 feature and short films highlighting the superiority of American civil society. The films targeted European and Asian rural audiences, and the project was described at the time as, “the greatest celluloid propaganda drive ever attempted in foreign countries.”