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In 2019, Ngo published a series in the ''[[New York Post]]'' alleging numerous hate crimes reported to police in Portland, Oregon had been faked.<ref name="Nawotka-2021"/> He contributed articles to the online magazine ''[[Quillette]]'' where he was described as a [[Copy editing|sub-editor]] and photojournalist for the publication at the time of his departure in August 2019.<ref name="Williams-2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/06/portland-mayor-police-come-under-fire-after-right-wing-writer-attacked-at-protest.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/06/portland-mayor-police-come-under-fire-after-right-wing-writer-attacked-at-protest.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|title=Portland mayor, police come under fire after right-wing writer attacked at protest|last=Williams|first=Kale|date=June 30, 2019|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|access-date=July 1, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Sommer-2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears| archive-date=2021-10-10 |title=Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces |last=Sommer |first=Will |website=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=August 27, 2019 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |language=en|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
By June 2020, Ngo was with ''[[The Post Millennial]]'',<ref name="Thompson-2020">{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Don|date=2020-06-04|title=Lawsuit aims to hold nebulous 'antifa' to blame for injuries|url=https://apnews.com/article/9c484adddf335e79be648e70406622ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114024556/https://apnews.com/article/9c484adddf335e79be648e70406622ca|archive-date=January 14, 2021|access-date=2021-02-14|website=AP NEWS|url-status=live}}</ref> a conservative Canadian news website,<ref name="Yates-2019">{{cite web|first1=Jeff|last1=Yates|first2=Kaleigh|last2=Rogers|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/the-post-millennial-journalism-conservative-advocacy-1.5191593| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/the-post-millennial-journalism-conservative-advocacy-1.5191593| archive-date=2021-10-10|title=Canadian news site ''The Post Millennial'' blurs line between journalism and conservative 'pamphleteering'|website=[[CBC News]]|date=June 27, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which continued to retain him as an editor-at-large in June 2024.<ref name="AH">{{cite news|last=Hansford|first=Amelia|title=Right-wing websites hacked with fake coming out statement from editor:
By 2020, Ngo had written several opinion articles for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref name="Lee-2020">{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Edmund|date=2020-07-24|title=At Wall Street Journal, News Staff and Opinion Side Clash|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/wall-street-journal-news-opinion-clash-letter.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/wall-street-journal-news-opinion-clash-letter.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-04-17|issn=0362-4331|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In July 2020, Ngo's reporting was among the concerns listed in a letter, penned by nearly 300 of ''The Journal's'' newsroom staff members to the paper's publisher, that condemned the opinion desk's "lack of fact-checking and transparency".<ref name="Lee-2020"/> Several media outlets,<ref name="Gupta-2019">{{cite web|last=Gupta|first=Arun|date=August 2019|title=Portland's Andy Ngo Is the Most Dangerous Grifter in America|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/andy-ngo-right-wing-antifa-protest-portland-bigotry| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/andy-ngo-right-wing-antifa-protest-portland-bigotry| archive-date=2021-10-10|magazine=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]]|accessdate=September 5, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> including ''[[The Oregonian]]''<ref name="Kavanaugh-2019">{{cite news|last=Kavanaugh|first=Shane Dixon|date=August 19, 2019|title=1 hammer, 1 'antifa mob chase': A closer look at Portland's viral protest moments|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/08/1-hammer-1-antifa-mob-chase-a-closer-look-at-portlands-viral-protest-moments.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/08/1-hammer-1-antifa-mob-chase-a-closer-look-at-portlands-viral-protest-moments.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> have been critical of Ngo and described him as a "right-wing provocateur".<ref>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Amy|author-link=Amy Goodman|date=August 21, 2019|title=Portland rejects proud boys & other ultra-right groups as Trump tries to criminalize Antifa|url=https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/08/21/portland-rejects-proud-boys-other-ultra-right-groups-as-trump-tries-to-criminalize-antifa/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/08/21/portland-rejects-proud-boys-other-ultra-right-groups-as-trump-tries-to-criminalize-antifa/| archive-date=2021-10-10|work=Nation of Change}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Cockburn|date=August 29, 2019|title=What's Ngext for Ngo?|url=https://spectator.us/whats-ngext-andy-ngo/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://spectator.us/whats-ngext-andy-ngo/| archive-date=2021-10-10|website=Spectator.us}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Peters|first=Justin|date=2021-01-16|title=Fox News Can Barely Admit the Capitol Riot Is a Story|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/fox-news-impeachment-capitol-riot-twitter.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/fox-news-impeachment-capitol-riot-twitter.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''[[BuzzFeed News]]'' said that "Ngo's work is probably best described as media activism" and that he engages in "participant reporting".<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine cites Ngo as an example of "busybody journalism".<ref name="Read-2018"/> In April 2019, [[Cathy Young]], writing for ''[[The Bulwark (website)|The Bulwark]]'', criticized Ngo for "outrage mining" after he re-posted various tweets from random Twitter accounts, some of whom were teenagers, that mocked [[France]] following the [[Notre-Dame de Paris fire]].<ref name="Young-2019">{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Cathy |author-link1=Cathy Young |title=Rise of the Notre Dame Truthers |url=https://thebulwark.com/rise-of-the-notre-dame-truthers/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://thebulwark.com/rise-of-the-notre-dame-truthers/| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=[[The Bulwark (website)|The Bulwark]] |access-date=June 30, 2019 |date=April 19, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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== Social media influence ==
Ngo has been variously described as a right-wing activist or [[influencer]],<ref name="Brandy-2022">{{Cite news |last=Zadrozny |first=Brandy |date=2022-12-02 |title=Elon Musk's 'amnesty' pledge brings back QAnon, far-right Twitter accounts |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musks-twitter-beginning-take-shape-rcna58940 |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=NBC News |language=en |quote=On Nov. 25, the account for the antifascist publishing group CrimethInc, which had more than 66,000 followers, was suspended after right-wing activist Andy Ngo tweeted at Musk requesting he ban it. Leigh Young, a member of the group, said that CrimethInc never received an official explanation for the suspension. |archive-date=May 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503003723/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musks-twitter-beginning-take-shape-rcna58940 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Lim-2022">{{Cite book |last1=Lim |first1=Gabrielle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JuZXEAAAQBAJ |title=The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media |last2=Abrahams |first2=Alexei |last3=Donovan |first3=Joan |date=2022-02-17 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-54418-3 |editor-last=Rosen |editor-first=Devan |language=en |chapter=Make It Trend! Setting Right-wing Media Agendas Using Twitter Hashtags |page=114-115 |access-date=September 11, 2022 |archive-date=April 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420012838/https://books.google.com/books?id=JuZXEAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Scott-2020" /><ref name="Newton-2022">{{Cite web |last=Newton |first=Creede |date=June 6, 2022 |title=Poland Paid Andy Ngo a Pittance for Anti-antifa Speech |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/06/06/poland-paid-andy-ngo-pittance-anti-antifa-speech |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en |archive-date=July 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728203348/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/06/06/poland-paid-andy-ngo-pittance-anti-antifa-speech |url-status=live }}</ref> a conservative journalist,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bonn |first=Tess |date=2019-07-25 |title=Conservative journalist Andy Ngo says assault involving Antifa resulted in brain injury |url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/454712-conservative-journalist-andy-ngo-says-antifa-attack-resulted-in-brain-injury/ |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=The Hill |language=en-US |archive-date=December 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216015244/https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/454712-conservative-journalist-andy-ngo-says-antifa-attack-resulted-in-brain-injury/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hanna |first=Jason |date=2019-07-02 |title=Conservative journalist blames assault at Portland protest on Antifa activists |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/us/ngo-antifa-protests-newday-cnntv/index.html |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827215136/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/us/ngo-antifa-protests-newday-cnntv/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> writer,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-01-14 |title=Powell's Books says Andy Ngo's book will not be in store |url=https://apnews.com/article/portland-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fc |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=AP News |language=en |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121050658/https://apnews.com/article/portland-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fc |url-status=live }}</ref> and blogger,<ref name="Dearden-2019">{{Cite web |last=Dearden |first=Lizzie |date=2019-06-30 |title=Antifa attack blogger Andy Ngo amid violence at Portland Proud Boys protest |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/antifa-attack-portland-andy-ngo-portland-proud-boys-alt-right-a8981331.html |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=May 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/antifa-attack-portland-andy-ngo-portland-proud-boys-alt-right-a8981331.html |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as a far-right content creator,<ref>{{Cite
In December 2019, ''The Oregonian'' named Ngo one of 2019's Top 15 Newsmakers citing events that included his attack, his surge in prominence within conservative circles, and his circulation of "heavily edited videos of several altercations to his then-270,000 Twitter followers, racking up millions of views online while spreading inaccurate claims and limited context about what transpired."<ref name="Butler-2019" /> [[President trump|President Trump]] began to mention Ngo at his rallies in July 2019.<ref name="Willamette Week-2019" />
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