Guildor (Guido Tarricone)

User's polarisation between opposing narratives on social media has contributed to the creation of echo chambers in which users reinforce their own preconceived views and prevented communication with people with different ideas, a phenomenon often defined as "the social media bubble". Although research has shown that at present it is not the algorithms we have to blame for this, but rather our own confirmation bias in a review of unmediated news, with this work I am suggesting that the situation could be actually reverted. Provided that most of the users tend in fact to the almost complete polarisation, an algorithm specifically designed to give more relevance to emotional dialecticism would then take advantage of the principles of emotional contagion to progressively disrupt those echo chambers, leadind to a more open and complex environment on social media.