While Tsipursky said the campaign and subsequent presidency of Donald Trump served as a major impetus for the Pro-Truth Pledge, he feels the movement can be spread and sustained into the future. Using social media, candidates can reach out to supporters directly, without their message going through the filter of news professionals, even with outright lies, Tsipursky said. "We have entered a brave new world where media is not as important in spreading information," he said. It wasn't just merely telling lies on the campaign trail, but doubling down on those lies even in the face of ample proof of their falsehood, Tsipursky said. "Not just simply spin, which was there before," he said.
Tsipursky, 36, who came to Columbus in 2011 and works in the history department at Ohio State, said the Pro-Truth Pledge dates back two and a half years, when the presidential primary was in full swing and featured a "huge amount of deception." "The Pro-Truth Pledge reverses the tide of lies by calling on politicians, and everyone else, to commit to truth-oriented behaviors." "Tired of living in a culture of lies, fake news, and alternative facts?" the website for the campaign asks. The Clintonville resident, whose family came to the United States from the former European principality of Moldavia in 1991 when he was 10, is the lead creator of the Pro-Truth Pledge, which is aimed at public figures and residents alike. That's the goal of a tenure-track professor at Ohio State University's Newark campus who's encouraging people to live by the adage, "honesty is the best policy."Īs far as Gleb Tsipursky is concerned, honesty ought to be the only policy.
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