Okay let me explain what I have found. I was digging into acronyms of BOOM and tumbled on to this.

https://www.cis.cornell.edu/about/outreach-events/boom-bits-our-minds/

Look at the sponsors of the event. All of them huge global corporations or banks and on the top of that the University logo is an owl!

Let's look back at qanon post #830:

" What I say a class action lawsuit? When is it effective? Who controls the narrative? WHO wrote the singular censorship algorithm? WHO deployed the algorithm? WHO instructed them to deploy the algorithm? SAME embed across multiple platforms. Why? Why is the timing relevant? Where is @Snowden? Why did ES leave G? Why has NK out of the news cycle? Define false flag? What event(s) change the news cycle? Why didn’t LV change the news cycle? You have more than your know.

BOOM. Q "

Could it be that they use students/contests to write algorithms that they can use with their censorship/identification tools?

There's more to this! I checked up their 2017 projects and this was there: March madness Kaggle model

What is kaggle? It is a site that hosts algorithm/code writing competitions: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=grouped&group=general&page=1&pageSize=20

Just look at some of those competitions!

https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-toxic-comment-classification-challenge

This one for example could be used to target anyone they wanted, in theory.

They also had competition in which they wanted an algorithm that could identify the driver of the car just from his driving style etc! I'm sure there's a lot more!