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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]]
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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" />
==== May Day 2019 ====
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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
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>
====''Unmasked''====
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In March 2021, [[Winston Marshall]], banjoist and founding member of the British [[folk rock]] band [[Mumford & Sons]], posted on Twitter to Ngo, "Finally had the time to read your important book. You're a brave man." His post led to online criticism, and several days later Marshall deleted the tweet, apologized for it, and stated that he was temporarily leaving the band "to examine my blindspots." In June, Marshall left Mumford & Sons permanently and recanted his apology, saying that it "participates in the lie that [the extremism documented in the book] does not exist, or worse, is a force for good."<ref>{{cite web |title=Mumford & Sons Banjoist Winston Marshall Quits After Andy Ngo Political Controversy |url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/mumford-and-sons-winston-marshal-leaving-andy-ngo-1235004545/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://variety.com/2021/music/news/mumford-and-sons-winston-marshal-leaving-andy-ngo-1235004545/| archive-date=2021-10-10 |first=Jordan |last=Moreau |work=Variety |date=June 24, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
In May 2021, while Ngo was in Portland to cover the one-year anniversary demonstrations for a follow-up chapter to ''Unmasked'', Ngo said he was recognized in disguise and then chased down by a group of five to ten demonstrators who attempted to unmask him before assaulting him.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Suzette|date=May 28, 2021|title=Portland Protesters Chase, Tackle and Punch Someone They Believe to Be Andy Ngo Until He Hides in The Nines Hotel|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/05/29/portland-protesters-chase-tackle-and-punch-someone-they-believe-to-be-andy-ngo-until-he-hides-in-the-nines-hotel/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/05/29/portland-protesters-chase-tackle-and-punch-someone-they-believe-to-be-andy-ngo-until-he-hides-in-the-nines-hotel/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Willamette Week|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Smith-2021">{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Suzette|date=June 2, 2021|title=Five Days After Attack, Andy Ngo Releases Statement Confirming He Was Chased and Beaten in Portland|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/06/02/five-days-after-attack-andy-ngo-releases-statement-confirming-he-was-chased-and-beaten-in-portland/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/06/02/five-days-after-attack-andy-ngo-releases-statement-confirming-he-was-chased-and-beaten-in-portland/| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Willamette Week|language=en-US|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="The Oregonian-2021">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-06-03|title=Andy Ngo says he was man chased, assaulted amid Portland protest|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/06/andy-ngo-says-he-was-man-chased-assaulted-amid-portland-protest.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/06/andy-ngo-says-he-was-man-chased-assaulted-amid-portland-protest.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-18|website=The Oregonian|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Ngo said that he was tackled and punched by demonstrators in [[black bloc]] before he fled into [[The Nines (hotel)|The Nines]] hotel.<ref name="Sparling-2021">{{Cite web|last=Sparling|first=Zane|date=2021-06-03|title=Ngo confirms attack while undercover at Portland protest|url=https://www.koin.com/top-stories/ngo-confirms-attack-while-undercover-at-portland-protest/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.koin.com/top-stories/ngo-confirms-attack-while-undercover-at-portland-protest/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-06|website=KOIN|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Ngo frequently uploads protesters' personal information, including mugshots, to social media: some protesters{{Who|date=February 2022}} have said this results in harassment and [[death threats]], leading them to view Ngo as a threat.<ref name="The Oregonian-2021" /><ref name="Smith-2021" /><ref name="Sparling-2021"
== Social media influence ==
Ngo has been variously described as a right-wing activist
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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By October 2020, ''[[Politico]]'' reported Ngo had established approximately 800,000 social media followers and had become a mega influencer that was a "key source for rightwing audiences in search of news about the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement".<ref name="Scott-2020" /> The following month, Ngo's viral video content was recirculated by President Trump following the [[Million MAGA March]].<ref name="Evans-2020" /><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Mackey|first1=Robert|last2=Mannon|first2=Travis|date=May 13, 2021|title=Meet the Riot Squad: Right-Wing Reporters Whose Viral Videos Are Used to Smear BLM|url=https://theintercept.com/2021/05/13/riot-squad-right-wing-video-journalists-black-lives-matter-antifa/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://theintercept.com/2021/05/13/riot-squad-right-wing-video-journalists-black-lives-matter-antifa/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-16|website=The Intercept|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
As of December 2023, Ngo had an X (formerly Twitter) following of over 1.4 million users.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-16 |title=Andy Ngo's Twitter Stats Summary Profile (Social Blade Twitter Statistics) |url=https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/mrandyngo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216014652/https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/mrandyngo |archive-date=December 16, 2023 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=[[Social Blade]]}}</ref>
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== Credibility ==
Ngo's credibility and objectivity as a journalist have been extensively criticized by other journalists
Ngo has been accused of having ties to the far-right groups [[Proud Boys]] and [[Patriot Prayer]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Covucci |first1=David |date=14 October 2019 |title=Andy Ngo smears antifa activist killed in hit-and-run |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andy-ngo-sean-kealiher/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andy-ngo-sean-kealiher/ |archive-date=2021-10-10 |access-date=18 February 2021 |website=Daily Dot |quote=Ngo has long maintained he is an independent reporter who covers the far-left despite his ties to the far-right. He’s also had a loose relationship with the truth while reporting on antifa.}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Newton-2022" /> After Ngo was assaulted by left-wing protestors in Portland in 2019, the Portland-based newspaper ''[[Willamette Week]]'' quoted the ''Portland Mercury's'' ''Blogtown'' in saying an unnamed Proud Boys member said that the attack on Ngo "happened because he ignored Proud Boys' offer of protection"<ref name="Jaquiss-2019">{{cite web |last=Jaquiss |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Jaquiss |date=August 28, 2019 |title=Right-Wing Brawlers Discussed a Hammer Fight While Being Filmed |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/08/28/right-wing-brawlers-discussed-a-hammer-fight-while-being-filmed/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/08/28/right-wing-brawlers-discussed-a-hammer-fight-while-being-filmed/ |archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=[[Willamette Week]] |quote=Ngo has claimed to be an independent journalist. It is increasingly clear he is coordinating his movements and his message with right-wing groups. On Aug. 26, The Portland Mercury published an allegation by a Vancouver infiltrator of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer. 'There's an understanding,' the man told the Mercury, 'that Patriot Prayer protects him and he protects them.' Ngo could not be reached for comment.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and accordingly stated "it is increasingly clear [Ngo] is coordinating his movements and his message with right-wing groups".<ref name="Jaquiss-2019"/>
''[[BuzzFeed News]]'' reported that "[Ngo's] literal brand is that anti-fascists are violent and loathe him", adding that he "has been building to a dramatic confrontation with the Portland far left for months, his star rising along with the severity of the encounters .... [Ngo] is willing to make himself the story and to stream himself doing it. He proceeds from a worldview and seeks to confirm it, without asking to what degree his coverage becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy".<ref name="Bernstein-2019"/> Brian Levin, an extremist expert from [[California State University, San Bernardino]], stated that Ngo was "a political pundit who certainly makes the most out of his conflicts, which sometimes turn violent on him. ... But to his credit, I've never seen him be the physical aggressor in the posts that he's made generally."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Mike |title=In Portland, Milkshakes, a Punch and #HimToo Refresh Police Criticism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/us/portland-protests-mayor-cruz.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206083940/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/us/portland-protests-mayor-cruz.html |archive-date=6 February 2021 |date=1 July 2019}}</ref>
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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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== Personal life ==
Ngo is [[gay]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ocamb |first=Karen |date=2019-07-01 |title=Conservative gay journalist attacked covering Portland protest |url=https://www.losangelesblade.com/2019/07/01/conservative-gay-journalist-attacked-covering-portland-protest/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Los Angeles Blade: LGBTQ News, Rights, Politics, Entertainment |language=en-US |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810231843/https://www.losangelesblade.com/2019/07/01/conservative-gay-journalist-attacked-covering-portland-protest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and he considers himself to be politically [[center-right]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Osborne|first=Mark|date=June 30, 2019|title=Right-wing protesters clash with anti-fascists as march gets violent|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wing-protesters-clash-anti-fascists-portland-march-violent/story?id=64043549|access-date=July 2, 2019|website=ABC News|quote=Andy Ngo, a conservative journalist ... .|archive-date=July 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701155239/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wing-protesters-clash-anti-fascists-portland-march-violent/story?id=64043549|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Quinn|first=Allison|date=June 30, 2019|title=Conservative Writer Andy Ngo Attacked at Portland Rally|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-writer-andy-ngo-attacked-at-portland-rally| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-writer-andy-ngo-attacked-at-portland-rally| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=July 1, 2019|website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=July 10, 2019|title=Joe Rogan Experience #1323 - Andy Ngo|website=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2EHMy1lgs|access-date=July 11, 2019|time=33:01–33:16|archive-date=July 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711080655/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2EHMy1lgs|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2021, ''[[The Oregonian]]'' reported that Ngo relocated to London, citing concerns for his personal safety.<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/> A [[Portland Police Bureau]] spokesman confirmed that Ngo filed at least 10 police reports about threats made to him or his family since June 2020.<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/>
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