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Is video of baby born with mustache real or fake?

“The clip lasted exactly 10 seconds and ran at 24 frames per second with no added individual frames, a common duration of AI-generated videos.”

— Snopes

What happened

A clip of a newborn with a full mustache, sitting upright in a hospital bed, spread across TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram, and readers wrote to Snopes asking if it was real. Snopes rated it fake, noting facial hair that comes and goes between frames and an AI label on one of the earliest uploads.

Read it at Snopes ↗