Burcu Baykurt is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Victoria de Grazia is Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University. Her books include Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe (2005) and The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy (2020).