Olha Tatokhina studied Publishing and Editing in Kyiv. Since 2014, she has been working in journalism, media and communications. Her journalistic works have been published in such Ukrainian media as UkraineWorld, NV.ua Detector Media, Rubryka, Zaxid.net, Nakypilo , and others. This is her debut book. Currently, Tatokhina works as an editor and communications specialist on media literacy and countering disinformation. Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and writer.

He is the President of PEN Ukraine and the current Analytics director at Internews Ukraine, one of the largest and oldest Ukrainian media NGOs. He is also the Editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project in English about Ukraine and an Associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has been published in numerous outlets, such as The Economist , Le Monde , Financial Times , New York Times , and Newsweek .