{"id":24970,"date":"2025-03-28T22:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24970"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:55:18","slug":"bizarre-reason-big-balls-is-trending-in-the-us-after-elon-musks-fox-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24970","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre reason ‘Big Balls’ is trending in the US after Elon Musk’s Fox interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Much like the man himself, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is never far from the news these days. After finding himself a cushy position alongside President Donald Trump as a ‘special government employee’, the world’s richest man has been tasked with slashing $2 trillion from the government spend.<\/p>\n

With Musk\u00a0axing thousands of jobs<\/a>,\u00a0cutting whole departments<\/a>, and sending out emails asking others to\u00a0justify their jobs<\/a>\u00a0in bullet point form, the tech billionaire has irked millions. This has overflowed into his\u00a0net worth taking a hit<\/a>, Musk being\u00a0sent death threats<\/a>, and scenes of\u00a0violence at Tesla dealerships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have already been questions about the young age of\u00a0Musk’s DOGE staffers<\/a>\u00a0and the fact they’re being granted access to high levels of government security. In an embarrassing week that’s already seen the\u00a0US’ war plans leaked<\/a>\u00a0via a Signal chat, a damning\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from Reuters claims that one DOGE employee known as ‘Big Balls’ provided services to a gang that cyberstalked an FBI agent two years ago.<\/p>\n

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Musk’s DOGE staffers are now in the spotlight (Andrew Harnik \/ Staff \/ Getty)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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19-year-old Edward Coristine is a prominent member of the DOGE team and has access to critical computers as part of his position trying to assist in trimming the governmental waste.<\/p>\n

Musk himself has championed Coristine’s work, previously saying, “Big Balls is awesome” on X. According to Reuters’ investigation, Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN, which provided network services to others. Among the DiamondCDN users was a group of cybercriminals that operated under “EGodly” between October 2022 and June 2023.<\/p>\n

Attempting to access the EGodly website would apparently greet you with a DiamondCDN ‘security check’.<\/p>\n

In February 2023, EGodly thanked DiamondCDN for its help and wrote: “We extend our gratitude to our valued partners DiamondCDN for generously providing us with their amazing DDoS protection and caching systems, which allow us to securely host and safeguard our website.”<\/p>\n

As well as EGodly boasting about committing\u00a0cryptocurrency<\/a>\u00a0theft, the group is accused of hijacking emails and contact numbers for law enforcement across Latin America and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

EGodly also distributed the phone number and photos of one FBI agent’s home in early 2023, alongside a drive-by video of him being harassed outside his house.<\/p>\n

The FBI agent is now retired but told Reuters that EGodly had drawn attention due its use of ‘swatting’. Although he didn’t go into further detail, he concluded: “These are bad folks. They’re not a pleasant group.”<\/p>\n

Coristine and the DOGE did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment, while he’s listed as a “senior adviser” at the State Department and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The CISA is responsible for protecting federal government networks from cybercriminals and foreign spies, but it didn’t comment, and neither did the State Department.<\/p>\n

It all comes in the aftermath of a Fox News interview where Musk hyped the work of the DOGE and said: “Basically almost no one has gotten fired, that\u2019s what we\u2019re saying.”<\/p>\n

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Less than 3 years before Elon Musk made him part of his government \u201coverhaul,” Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, then 17, was subject of a heated dispute between executives at cybersecurity firm where he was an intern & suspected of leaking proprietary information to competitor. pic.twitter.com\/qM0ozZ70J3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bryan Dawson\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@BryanDawsonUSA) March 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n