The Clint Eastwood Interview Scandal Is Weirder Than You Think

On Monday, June 2, legendary actor, director, and Dirty Harry himself, Clint Eastwood, accused an Austrian news publication of publishing a "phony" interview with him. If your first thought is that some unscrupulous AI-generated interview has put words in Eastwood's mouth, that's actually not the case. The reason why this interview was "phony" wasn't because Eastwood never said any of those things; it's just that he didn't say any of these things recently.

The widely circulated article, published by the Austrian publication Kurier...