More than 30 closed Facebook groups affiliated with Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been infiltrated by a faction of politically active satirists known as Die Partei (The Party).
The subversive practical joke affected some 180,000 Facebook users belonging to the groups, the anti-political Die Partei said in a statement.
AfD members and supporters had used the groups mostly to stay in contact and had shared "no especially secret content" there, AfD spokesman Christian Luth said Monday.
The previously closed groups of the anti-immigrant party were made public and renamed with titles like Hummus Love instead of Homeland Love and Boateng Fan Group - the latter referencing a black footballer on Germany's national team.
"This group is, as of now, under control of the very good party 'The Party'," said a post that appeared in the AfD groups on Sunday.
"My team and I infiltrated the groups 11 months ago - now we are assuming power," prankster Shahak Sapira said in a video accompanying the post.
With less than three weeks to go before Germany's national election on September 24, polls have indicated that the AfD is likely to become the first far-right party to enter German parliament since the end of World War II.
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