The actor and filmmaker has no official social media pages, his spokesperson tells PEOPLE
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Clint Eastwood is not on social media.
A spokesperson for the 93-year-old actor and filmmaker confirmed to PEOPLE that Eastwood does not have any official social media accounts, although there are pages online that claim to belong to the star.
One X account in particular (formerly Twitter) tricked Eastwood followers into believing he was behind the account because the profile had a checkmark that said “Verified.”
Previously, blue checkmarks on X meant that an account actually belonged to the person or organization depicted. But since Elon Musk took over the social media site, anyone with an active subscription to X Premium can display the badge on their profile.
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Although Eastwood is not the type to use social media, he is more concerned with using his platform for a good cause.
Last month, Scream Macho The actor made a rare appearance at the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Reasons for Hope event in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where Dr. Jane Goodall spoke during the event, which the venue, the Sunset Center, described as her “90th birthday tour.”
Eastwood was spotted at the event with a full beard and wearing blue pants and a jacket over a colorful flannel button-down shirt.
All proceeds from the “Reasons for Hope” event went “to support global youth environmental initiatives through Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program,” the description said.
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Eastwood has previously spoken about the concept of current trends, including taking selfies.
He said he found taking selfies “annoying” during a talk promoting his 2018 film The 15:17 to Paris.
“I don’t like selfie sticks and I don’t like selfies. Period,” he said USA Today back then. “But you’re asked to do so many of them.”
During a conversation with Eastwood on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon In 2016, host Jimmy Fallon introduced the actor to a face-morphing app called Bonk and even asked him to take a selfie for it.
Although his immediate answer was “no,” Eastwood eventually complied and watched as the app distorted his selfie in real time.
“Well, I’ve looked worse,” he joked in response.
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