CNN Runs Segment on Government ‘Expert’ Known as ‘Big Balls’

CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront dedicated an entire segment on Thursday to a 19-year-old “government expert” working for Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” who is known online under the name “Big Balls.”

The teenager’s actual name is Edward Coristine.

During the segment, Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond told host Erin Burnett, “So this is a 19-year-old high school graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname, uh, ‘Big Balls’ online. So that would be one way that we could refer to him.”

As the chyron read, “DOGE teen, known online as ‘Big Balls,’ now a govt ‘expert’,” Drummond continued:

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. Now, this LLC controls dozens of web domains, a handful of which are registered to Russia. Now that in and of itself is not necessarily illegal, but every expert we’ve spoke to said that that is exactly the kind of thing, those kinds of foreign connections, that would raise red flags on a background check. Now, he also worked at a network monitoring firm that is known for hiring reformed black hat hackers, essentially criminals, and lastly we uncovered Telegram messages that we’ve linked to this individual in which that Telegram user is soliciting a cyber attack for hire.

Musk responded to the segment with ridicule on social media, tweeting, “This was actually on TV,” along with three laughing emojis.

Watch above via CNN.