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The article links to this video of the incident:

Without video of the filter in action, I'm skeptical of the claim.

It seems plausible that the person on the left is using a filter of some kind.

Yeah, the tech is not at the level of side by side images shown in the video. Only at the level of taking forever to replace a face in another video.

I'm skeptical, too, that this isn't a stunt.