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The truth about Obama's video message

Obama The video was made to raise awareness about fake video

A video featuring former US President Barrack Obama delivering an official address to the people has gone viral. In the video Obama can be heard calling current US President Donald Trump "a total and complete dips***". Halfway through the video, it is revealed that Comedian Jordan Peele had given the voiceover for the video and digitally manipulated it to look like an original speech by Obama.

The video is a mockumentary made by Peele under a collaboration with BuzzFeed. The aim of this collaboration was to make its viewers aware that one must not believe everything that is shown in the videos circulated online.

Peele and BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti together helmed this video project under the banner Monkeypaw Productions to highlight the importance of the media literacy among people.

The video was shared by several internet users across Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.

The reports further mention that the video was built using AfterEffects and an application called as Fakeapp.

(Wit inputs from ANI)