Hacked Emails Show Larry Ellison Vetting Marco Rubio on Israel in 2015

Wanna fall down a rabbit hole with me? I never thought we’d end up with tech billionaires, ex-prime ministers, social-media apps, and war zones all tangled together - yet here we are.

This story starts with Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire. According to hacked emails first reported by Drop Site News this month, back in 2015 he personally vetted Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel and set Rubio up to meet Tony Blair. Fast forward a decade, and Rubio is Secretary of State, Blair’s running an institute advising governments, and Ellison’s money has flowed into both politics and the institute that drew up a postwar plan for Gaza.

Blair’s think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, has been connected to a proposal called the Gaza Riviera - a plan to rebuild Gaza into something resembling a private coastal investment zone. Think luxury resorts and tech campuses replacing bombed-out housing. Blair’s office insists they didn’t design it, but staff from his institute were involved in the early talks.

It’s Project 2025 all over again - they’ve never heard of the plan until they start implementation of the plan.

Ellison has dropped major dollars into the institute. Which means the billionaire who vetted Rubio for foreign-policy loyalty is also bankrolling the organization advising on how to rebuild a territory that Rubio’s State Department is helping to shape. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s a Venn diagram where all the circles overlap.

Now toss in TikTok. Rubio has been one of the loudest voices pushing to ban or force the sale of the app in the U.S.

Ellison doesn’t just have ties to potential buyers - Trump has tapped Ellison and his company, Oracle, to help run TikTok in the U.S. after the forced sale. So while Congress pretends it’s all about national security, there’s a chance that what’s really being secured is a piece of the next media empire.

Here’s what’s confirmed: Ellison funded Blair’s institute, Blair’s team has advised on Gaza’s reconstruction, and Rubio’s political rise was boosted by Ellison’s orbit. What’s still being vetted: whether the same small circle of power players is shaping how Americans get their news, how Palestinians rebuild their land, and who profits from both.

It sounds too cinematic to be real - tech money, foreign policy, and propaganda apps all converging in a strip of land smaller than Philadelphia. But that’s where we are. Gaza is the geopolitical lab, and the same people writing the code are writing the policy.

Update, September 28th, 2026: The title and a few lines now say the Rubio story comes from hacked emails first reported by Drop Site News, that Ellison’s money went to Blair’s institute rather than to rebuilding projects, and that Trump has tapped Ellison and Oracle to help run TikTok in the U.S. Apostrophes and quote marks lost in an old publishing glitch are back, each quote checked against its source.