Was a video about "Malcom tongue condoms" a real ad for a real product? No, that's not true: As of this writing, there was no such product available in the U.S. The clip, first uploaded by a digital creator, was generated by AI.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here and here) published on March 17, 2026. It opened:
Check out this ad for tongue condoms. A thin sheet of protective material placed between the mouth and the intimate area. They help reduce the risk of transmission of various sexually transmitted infections. Have you ever seen one of these?
The post shared a video with the following voice-over:
Safe, sensational, secure. Malcom thin and high-tech [inaudible], they deliver maximum sensation. Available in packs of 10. Malcom tongue condoms -- for confident intimacy.
This is what the clip looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @xKnowledgeBANK on X.com.)
No such product
Oral condoms are a real thing (archived here), but they are dental dams (archived here) -- not what the video from social media showed.
In the U.S., condoms are considered medical devices (archived here) and, therefore, require Food and Drug Administration clearance. The list of approved products is available on the agency's website here.
Despite the small "FDA approved" watermark seen in the clip about "Malcom tongue condoms," the real FDA database did not show that such an item has ever been tested or approved:
(Image source: FDA.)
AI-made tongue condoms
The biggest giveaway that the "ad" was created by AI was the gibberish seen on the pack that entered the frame in the final seconds of the video:
(Image source: post by @xKnowledgeBANK on X.com.)
Lead Stories tested the clip with the AI-generated content detection tool of hivemoderation.com. According to it, the likelihood of the ad being a product of generative AI was between 76.1 and 99.8 percent:
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
The two most recent AI detection models from 2025 available via DeepFake-o-Meter, another tool, placed the odds between 51.6 and 99.9 percent:
(Image source: DeepFake-o-Meter.)
Lead Stories checked a screenshot from the video with one more AI detection tool, Sightengine. It placed the chances of the clip being AI-made at 95 percent:
(Image source: Sightengine.)
When the audio from the video was tested separately via InVid's Hiya tool, it concluded that the sound was 99 percent likely to have been artificially created:
(Image source: InVid.)
Origins of the claim
On March 13, 2026, the clip originated (archived here) from an account on Instagram that posts content under the handle "am.malcom." That was a digital creator's account, not a real condom-making company. Two days later, the same account published one more variation (archived here) of the video reviewed in this fact check.
