Meet the young Musketeers, our unelected overlords employed by ‘Doge’

Elon Musk’s crew, most of whom can’t rent a car without paying the ‘under 25’ fee, have access to our sensitive personal data

Say what you like about the Trump administration – it’s got big balls. Unfortunately, I mean this quite literally: a 19-year-old called Edward Coristine, whose online history includes a LinkedIn account where he called himself “bigballs”, appears to be one of our unelected overlords.

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