It's not false. It states in the article that the mask has passed Facebook's facial recognition to match as the artist. Of course we can't know if this will pass a government facial recognition system, but the point isn't "confuse humans" it is "confuse machines".

Does the surveillance camera see you as an inhabitant of the uncanny valley? Probably not yet.

The real question is how quickly surveillance systems will get smart enough to mark these masks as not real.