His father, Vittorio Di Battista, was an entrepreneur in the healthcare sector and municipal councilor for the Italian Social Movement.

[2] Di Battista graduated high school from Liceo Scientifico Statale Farnesina located in Rome.

[12][13] He also declared that the Draghi Cabinet had been a work of Gianni Letta and he will not found another political party nor lead the set of deputies expelled out of 5 Star Movement.

After his parliamentary activity, he started collaborating with Il Fatto Quotidiano, providing documentaries and journalistic coverage on foreign world areas, as well as podcasts and interviews.

On 14 February 2015, in an article published by The New York Times Di Battista is ranked as winner for the "biggest lie" of the year, pronounced by a politician in 2014.

In the article, it is reported a sentence told by Di Battista in a rally in which, describing the political situation in Nigeria, he said that "60% of the country is in the hands of Boko Haram, and the rest of the country is suffering with Ebola", thesis rejected both by the NYT and the World Health Organization.