Thanks to Media Hysteria, 19-Year-Old Elon Musk DOGE Staffer ‘Big Balls’ Lands New Role at State Department

The fake news media’s obsession with “Big Balls” has inadvertently elevated Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old behind the moniker, to a new position at the U.S. State Department.

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Last Thursday, CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” dedicated an entire segment to what they deemed a critical issue: Edward Coristine’s online nickname.

While government waste and inefficiency run rampant, CNN and Wired chose to zoom in on Coristine’s adolescent alias rather than more substantive matters affecting Americans.

“This is a 19-year-old high school graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname, uh, ‘Big Balls’ online,” Drummond revealed.

“He is now working at Musk’s behest inside DOGE and we looked into his background, and so we found, you know, several notable things, Erin.

“One of which is that this individual has founded multiple companies, including one with another unfortunate name, uh, “Tesla Dot Sexy LLC,” which he established in 2021. He would have been around 16 years old,” she added.

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Now, the Washington Post has further escalated the hysteria by reporting that Coristine has been appointed as a senior adviser at the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.

The news outlet reported:

A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as “Big Balls” is listed as having taken on a new role at the State Department, raising concerns among some diplomats about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

Edward Coristine, who briefly worked for Musk’s brain-chip start-up Neuralink, is posted as a senior adviser to the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, a critical hub for data — both sensitive and nonsensitive, officials said. Coristine, who also holds positions at the U.S. DOGE Service and the Office of Personnel Management, has attracted significant attention across Washington for his edgy online persona and the relative lack of experience he brings to his new federal roles.

But his new position could give him visibility into far more than just tech.

Some U.S. officials expressed alarm about Coristine’s new perch at the bureau, which serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus. All of the department’s IT and data management functions were centralized at the bureau during an overhaul before President Donald Trump returned to office, making it a treasure trove of information.

“This is dangerous,” said one of the U.S. officials, noting Coristine’s youth and a report by Bloomberg that he was fired for leaking a data security firm’s information to a competitor.

His colleague, Luke Farritor, a former SpaceX intern, is also now listed in the State Department’s directory, alongside Coristine. The Washington Post notes that these young engineers, all under 25, have rapidly accumulated power within the DOGE framework, worrying the bureaucrats.

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