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The US Department of Education's Harry Potter-style X post appeared to promote the 'Malfoid,' a right-wing fan-fiction meme featuring a gender-flipped, blood-purity-obsessed female Draco Malfoy that has become a vehicle for far-right aesthetics and AI-generated propaganda.
IRON-Meme is a human-annotated benchmark of 1,110 political memes with a social-science-grounded framework for classifying social identities, viewpoints, and narrative roles; evaluation of nine vision-language models shows frontier and reasoning models perform best, while template background knowledge does not improve role classification.