Walter Quattrociocchi

Walter Quattrociocchi is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome. His research spans computational social science, online polarization, misinformation spread, and the structural properties of social networks that amplify false information. He is a leading figure in quantifying echo chambers and studying how platform architecture shapes user exposure to diverse information.

Key papers

• The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic — Multi-platform analysis of COVID-19 information diffusion using epidemic models
• The echo chamber effect on social media — Comparative analysis of echo chambers across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Gab

Notes

Affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer Science. Corresponding author for the Cinelli et al. paper.