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'''Andy Cuong Ngo''' ({{IPAc-en|n|oʊ}} {{respell|n|oh}}; born {{birth based on age as of date|30|2017|5|23|noage=1}})<ref name="Herron-2017"/> is an American [[right-wing]] social media [[influencer]],<ref name="Lim-2022" /> who is known for covering and video-recording demonstrators.<ref name="AP NEWS-2021"/> He is a journalist and [[editor-at-large]] for ''[[The Post Millennial]]'', a [[Canadian conservative]] news website,<ref name="Thompson-2020"/> and a regular guest on [[Fox News]].<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/> Ngo has published columns in the ''[[New York Post]]''<ref name="Nawotka-2021" /> and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
Ngo's coverage of [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]] and [[Muslims]] has been controversial, and the accuracy and credibility of his reporting have been disputed by journalists. He has been accused of sharing misleading or selective material,<ref name="Juarez-2019"/><ref name="Gupta-2019"/><ref name="Gais-2019"/> and has been described as a [[Agent provocateur|provocateur]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stuchbery |first1=Mike |title=The right want to make the Andy Ngo Antifa violence a reason to stop confronting fascists. Don't ever let it happen |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antifa-nazi-andy-ngo-quilette-portland-fascism-antifascism-far-right-gofundme-a8984256.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antifa-nazi-andy-ngo-quilette-portland-fascism-antifascism-far-right-gofundme-a8984256.html| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=The Independent |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=2 July 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=|date=2021-04-06|title=Christian Conference Q Ideas Has Dropped Right Wing Antifa Critic Andy Ngo From Its Lineup|url=https://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/christian-conference-q-ideas-has-dropped-right-wing-troll-andy-ngo-from-its-lineup/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/christian-conference-q-ideas-has-dropped-right-wing-troll-andy-ngo-from-its-lineup/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|magazine=Relevant|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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== Early life and education ==
Ngo was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.<ref name="Herron-2017"/> His parents fled [[Vietnam]] in 1978 as [[Vietnamese boat people]],<ref name="Griffin-2018" /> after they had been forced into labor and [[Re-education camp (Vietnam)|re-education camps]] by the Communist government.<ref name="Bernstein-2019" /> His mother came from an educated middle-class family that ran a jewelry business.<ref name="Griffin-2018"/> His father had been a police officer in a small coastal town in Vietnam.<ref name="Griffin-2018"/> His parents first met amid a six-month stay at a [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] camp near [[Tanjungpinang]], Indonesia, prior to their arrival in the United States in 1979.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ngo|first=Andy|date=February 2021|title=Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy|location=New York, NY|publisher=Center Street – [[Hachette Book Group]]|pages=223–233|isbn=978-1-5460-5958-5|lccn=2020951079}}</ref>
Raised in a [[Buddhist]] family, Ngo converted to [[Christianity]] in high school.<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> After a period of time as an [[evangelical Christian]], he became disillusioned and took an interest in [[skepticism]]. He subsequently became an [[atheist]],<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> and was strongly against organized religion, which was reflected in his social media activity in the form of what Ngo later described as "inflammatory language", with [[Reddit]] comments such as "[[Islam]] needs to be neutered like Christianity".<ref name="Gais-2019">{{cite news|url=https://jewishcurrents.org/the-making-of-andy-ngo/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://jewishcurrents.org/the-making-of-andy-ngo/| archive-date=2021-10-10|newspaper=Jewish Currents|title=The Making of Andy Ngo|date=September 11, 2019|first=Hannah|last=Gais}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2019, Ngo said that his earlier social media activity "represented my simplistic views at the time" and that his comments no longer represented his beliefs.<ref name="Gais-2019"/>
Ngo speaks with a British accent, which he says he "developed from living in the UK for several years as a teen".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |date=2019-07-19 |title=Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him A Victim And A Star. |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/andy-ngo-portland-antifa |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=BuzzFeed News |language=en}}</ref> While attending the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA), Ngo volunteered with [[AmeriCorps]].<ref name="Griffin-2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/immigrants-vietnam-oregon-conservative-worldview/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208234648/https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/immigrants-vietnam-oregon-conservative-worldview/| archive-date=February 8, 2018|title=For Immigrants' Son, Vietnam Trip Led To More Conservative Worldview|last=Griffin|first=Anna|website=opb.org|publisher=[[Oregon Public Broadcasting]]|date=February 8, 2018|access-date=June 30, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> He graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a graphic design degree.<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> After graduation, he experienced a period of unemployment and worked as a photographer at a used car dealership.<ref name="Bernstein-2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/andy-ngo-portland-antifa| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/andy-ngo-portland-antifa| archive-date=2021-10-10 |title=Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him A Victim and a Star.|last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |date=July 18, 2019 |website=[[BuzzFeed News]] |access-date=July 27, 2019 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In the mid-2010s, Ngo [[came out]] as [[gay]] while visiting relatives in rural Vietnam.<ref name="Griffin-2018"/> He began volunteering as a photographer at the [[Center for Inquiry]] in Portland in 2013.<ref name="Gais-2019"/>
In 2015, Ngo enrolled in a master's program at [[Portland State University]] for political science, with a focus on international relations and comparative politics.<ref name="Herron-2017"/><ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> While attending the school, he joined the Freethinkers of Portland State University,<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> a student organization that worked closely with professor [[Peter Boghossian]].<ref name="Gais-2019"/><ref name="Wilson-2018"/>
== Career ==
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=== Livestreaming Patriot Prayer rallies (2017–2019) ===
In 2017, Ngo began filming rallies held by [[Patriot Prayer]], a Portland-area far-right group<ref name="Bernstein-2019" /> known for holding pro-gun, [[pro-Trump]] rallies<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Hay|first1=Gabriella|last2=Borter|first2=Andrew|date=2020-09-02|title=What to know about Patriot Prayer as Trump supporters take stand in Portland|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-race-protests-patriot-prayer-idUKKBN25S5Z5|url-status=live|access-date=2020-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914122512/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-race-protests-patriot-prayer-idUKKBN25S5Z5|archive-date=September 14, 2020}}</ref> that have devolved into violence and street fighting.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Coaston|first=Jane|date=2020-09-08|title=The pro-Trump, anti-left Patriot Prayer group, explained|url=https://www.vox.com/2020/9/8/21417403/patriot-prayer-explained-portland| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.vox.com/2020/9/8/21417403/patriot-prayer-explained-portland| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Vox|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shepherd|first=Katie|date=July 4, 2018|title=MAGA Mayhem Fractures a Man's Skull, as Right-Wing Marchers Test the Limits of Free Speech in Portland|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/07/04/maga-mayhem-fractures-a-mans-skull-as-right-wing-marchers-test-the-limits-of-free-speech-in-portland/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/07/04/maga-mayhem-fractures-a-mans-skull-as-right-wing-marchers-test-the-limits-of-free-speech-in-portland/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Willamette Week|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Neiwert|first=David|date=October 15, 2018|title=Patriot Prayer again brings violence to Portland with 'flash march' downtown, rounding out a weekend of far-right violence|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/15/patriot-prayer-again-brings-violence-portland-flash-march-downtown-rounding-out-weekend-far| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/15/patriot-prayer-again-brings-violence-portland-flash-march-downtown-rounding-out-weekend-far| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Southern Poverty Law Center|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The Patriot Prayer gatherings (whose early rallies were used by [[White nationalism|white nationalists]] as recruitment events) were met by Portland's anti-fascists and anarchists known to support [[direct action]], including violence.<ref name="Bernstein-2019" /> November 2018, Ngo [[live-streamed]] video coverage of the [[Him Too rally]] organized by a Patriot Prayer member in downtown Portland, and was sprayed with [[silly string]] and harassed<ref name="Henry-2019">{{Cite web|last=Henry|first=Warren|date=2019-09-13|title=The Curious Case of Andy Ngo|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/warren-henry/the-curious-case-of-andy-ngo/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/warren-henry/the-curious-case-of-andy-ngo/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-16|website=Commentary Magazine|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref> by antifa protesters.<ref name="Manchester-2018">{{cite web |last1=Manchester |first1=Julia |title=Democratic politicians in 'difficult position' in handling Antifa, says journalist |url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/417389-liberal-politicians-in-difficult-position-in-dealing-with-antifa-says| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/417389-liberal-politicians-in-difficult-position-in-dealing-with-antifa-says| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=July 1, 2019 |date=November 19, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sparling |first1=Zane |title=6 arrested, released during Saturday protest in Portland |url=https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/412493-313328-6-arrested-released-during-saturday-protest-in-portland| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/412493-313328-6-arrested-released-during-saturday-protest-in-portland| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=[[Portland Tribune]]|access-date=June 30, 2019 |date=November 18, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> By 2019, Ngo routinely attended and live-streamed events at Portland protests.<ref name="Williams-2019" />
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== Legal actions ==
In June 2020, Ngo sued individuals allegedly associated with [[
Ngo has been invited by Republican lawmakers to testify before Congress on several occasions.<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/><ref name="Buchman-2021">{{Cite web|last=Buchman|first=Brandi|date=February 25, 2021|title=Domestic Terror Still Thorny Issue for Lawmakers After Capitol Attack|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/domestic-terror-still-thorny-issue-for-lawmakers-after-capitol-attack/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.courthousenews.com/domestic-terror-still-thorny-issue-for-lawmakers-after-capitol-attack/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-10|website=Courthouse News Service|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On August 4, 2020, he provided testimony at a United States Senate Judiciary subcommittee titled "The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lennard |first1=Natasha |title=Ted Cruz's Hearing on Anarchist Protest Violence Was a Total Farce |url=https://theintercept.com/2020/08/05/ted-cruz-hearing-antifa/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://theintercept.com/2020/08/05/ted-cruz-hearing-antifa/| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=The Intercept |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=6 August 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Fox News reported that Ngo disputed media coverage of protests and criticized Democrats for not condemning antifa for violence in Portland; however, prosecutors focused only on criminal conduct and did not provide evidence that any of the people arrested in Portland were linked to antifa.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Howard|first1=Christopher|date=5 August 2020|title=Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa in domestic terrorism hearing, Andy Ngo says|work=Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-refuse-condemn-antifa-andy-ngo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-refuse-condemn-antifa-andy-ngo| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=24 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The Southern Poverty Law Center stated that Ngo has been a vocal proponent of listing antifa as a terrorist organization.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gais |first1=Hannah |title=Congressmen, Right-Wing Media Push Baseless Claims That Antifa Fueled Far-Right Riot at Nation's Capitol |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/07/congressmen-right-wing-media-push-baseless-claims-antifa-fueled-far-right-riot-nations| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/07/congressmen-right-wing-media-push-baseless-claims-antifa-fueled-far-right-riot-nations| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=7 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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