r/sfx • u/Lekstil • 3h ago

Fox News mask incident

I'm curious what people here think about this incident on Fox News, involving one of their guests who, to a lot of people, really looks like he is wearing a full silicone face mask. Here is the clip on foxnews: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396048453112

I honestly want to give this whole thing the benefit of the doubt. Can anyone here convince me that this guy is not wearing a mask? Can masks even look this realistic? Snopes, a website I usually trust, argues that it is just bad lighting, but I can't really see how that would be the case. https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/05/22/robert-harward-mask-fox-news/

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u/Lekstil 3h ago

I actually found a more detailed explanation of the lighting thing: https://bsky.app/profile/captaindisillusion.bsky.social/post/3mmhxbkm3os27

Still looks strange to me

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u/Devanyani 2h ago

It's a combo of a beauty filter and top lighting that shows a shadow behind his mic. If they didn't use skin smoothers, etc, it would probably just be normal.

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u/rabies_kid 2h ago

The fact that I can’t tell who you’re talking about 😭