The BBC says it has used unnamed facial recognition software to identify a Hamas militant perpetrating the terror attack on an Israeli rave last weekend. (He was filmed by a dash cam on scene).
This is part of a larger BBC piece on Hamas' massacre, which killed at least 260 civilians: How massacre unfolded from verified video and social media:
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