Forensic experts and institutions like DARPA's SemaFor program have established that hand anomalies in video can be encoding artifacts rather than AI tells — a distinction that video manipulation analysis in modern conflict zones has made urgent, as the Netanyahu six-fingers controversy showed. The three-finger test collapses that complexity into a single rule, and simplified rules applied at scale don't just fail — they actively certify content that should be questioned. A viewer who checks for finger counts and finds five has done the test and passed the content. That…