Peter Balonon-Rosen

Avishay Artsy and Danielle Hewitt produced today's show, and Amina El-Saadi edited.

David Taddeo and Brintry Dunigan engineered, and Peter Balonon-Rosen and Ariana Spudu checked the facts.

I'm Noel King.

It's Today Explained.

You also heard from Professor Whitney Phillips from the University of Oregon.

And we also wanna thank Professor Joshua Rovner from American University for his help with today's show, which Peter Balonon-Rosen produced, Jolie Myers edited, Gabriel Dunatov fact-checked, and Bridger Dunnigan and David Tatishore mixed.

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Today's show was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and edited by Jolie Myers.

Our engineers are David Tadishore and Bridger Dunnigan.

Gabriel Dunshoff checked the facts.