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| alma_mater = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| employer = ''[[The Post Millennial]]''
| known_for = Coverage of [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]], [[Muslims]], [[transgender|trans people]] and [[right-wing|right-wing politics]]
| occupation = {{hlist|[[Social media influencer]]|[[journalist]]|[[writer]]}}
| website = {{official URL}}
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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]] author and 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]]''.<ref name="Lee-2020"/>
 
Ngo's coverage of [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]], [[transgender|trans people]] 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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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> Ngowhich describescontinued himselfto retain him as thean editor-at-large forin ''TheJune Post Millennial''2024.<ref name="AP NEWS-2021AH">{{cite webnews|datelast=2021-01-12Hansford|first=Amelia|title=Powell'sRight-wing Bookswebsites sayshacked Andywith Ngo'sfake bookcoming willout notstatement befrom ineditor: store‘I am a trans individual’|urldate=https://apnews.com/article/portland-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fcMay 3, 2024|publisher=[[Pink archive-News]]|url=https://ghostarchivewww.orgthepinknews.com/archive2024/2021101005/https:03//apnews.com/article/portlandandy-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fc| archivengo-date=2021website-10hacked-10|accessthe-date=2021post-02-14|website=AP NEWS|url-status=live}}{{cbignoremillennial}}</ref> As Heof has2020, he beenwas a regular guest on [[Fox News]]<ref name="Gupta-2019"/><ref name="Peel-2020">{{cite web|last=Peel|first=Sophie|date=September 16, 2020|title=Portland Protesters Say Their Lives Were Upended by the Posting of Their Mug Shots on a Conservative Twitter Account|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/09/16/portland-protesters-say-their-lives-were-upended-by-the-posting-of-their-mug-shots-on-a-conservative-twitter-account/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/09/16/portland-protesters-say-their-lives-were-upended-by-the-posting-of-their-mug-shots-on-a-conservative-twitter-account/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Willamette Week|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref> where he hashad expressed his concerns about the dangers posed by the left on at least two dozen occasions as of February 2021.<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/>
 
By 2020, Ngo hashad 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> In 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center claimed that his primary activity consisted of targeting Antifa, Muslims, trans people and left-wing activists on Twitter.<ref name="Newton-2022"/> The "[[Transphobia|anti-trans rhetoric]] and [[Conspiracy theory|conspiratorial]] coverage of the LGBTQ+ community" in his reporting for ''The Post Millennial'' led to the hacking of the news website and its [[Holding company#Parent company|parent]], ''[[Human Events]]'', in May 2023.<ref name="AH"/>
 
In April 2021, he was dropped as a speaker from [[Fermi Project|Gabe Lyons]]'s Evangelical conference Q Ideas in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] at the insistence of the [[Christian hip hop|rapper]] [[Propaganda (musician)|Jason "Propaganda" Petty]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Smietana|first=Bob|title=Andy Ngo, Antifa Critic, Dropped as Speaker by Christian Conference Q Ideas|publisher=The Roys Report|date=April 3, 2021|url=https://julieroys.com/ngo-dropped-speaker-q-ideas/comment-page-1}}</ref> In October 2021, he delivered a paid anti-antifa speech at the [[Ujazdów Castle#Centre for Contemporary Art|Centre for Contemporary Art]] in [[Warsaw]] by invitation of the [[Mateusz Morawiecki#Second term (2019–2023)|Polish government]], as part of a series of public appearances by US [[Conservatism in the United States|hard right]] figures in Poland and [[Hungary]].<ref name="Newton-2022"/> He also met at the time with Hungary's [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary)|foreign minister]] [[Péter Szijjártó]] and [[Balázs Orbán (politician)|Balázs Orbán]], the political director to the [[Prime Minister of Hungary|prime minister]] and chairman of [[Mathias Corvinus Collegium]] (MCC) to discuss the country's [[Hungarian anti-LGBT law|anti-LGBTQ laws]], but was not paid for his planned speech at MCC.<ref>{{cite news|last=Newton|first=Creede|title=Hungary Ambassador Affirms Role as Far-right Leader at Republican Gala|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=December 16, 2022|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/12/16/hungary-ambassador-affirms-role-far-right-leader-republican-gala}}</ref>
 
====''Unmasked''====
During the week of January 10, 2021, the online pre-sale of Ngo's first book, ''Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy'', was met with a small group of protestors who demonstrated outside the flagship [[Powell's Books]] in Portland, Oregon.<ref name="Nawotka-2021">{{Cite web|last=Nawotka|first=Ed|date=January 14, 2021|title=Powell's Responds to Anti-Ngo Protestors|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/85303-powell-s-responds-to-anti-ngo-protestors.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/85303-powell-s-responds-to-anti-ngo-protestors.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-01-26|website=Publishers Weekly}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nawotka|first=Ed|date=January 19, 2021|title=Union, PEN Issue Statements on Powell's Sale of Ngo Book|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/85343-union-pen-america-issue-statements-on-powell-s-sale-of-ngo-book.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/85343-union-pen-america-issue-statements-on-powell-s-sale-of-ngo-book.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-17|website=Publishers Weekly}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The bookseller, which offered the book for sale online, chose not to promote ''Unmasked'' or physically stock it in their stores.<ref name="AP NEWS-2021">{{cite web|date=2021-01-12|title=Powell's Books says Andy Ngo's book will not be in store|url=https://apnews.com/article/portland-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://apnews.com/article/portland-3dd2bc3ecc27be60a25c98eec18504fc| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-02-14|website=AP NEWS|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The book became "one of the most popular political titles on Amazon before its release."<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021">{{cite web |author=Kavanaugh |first=Shane Dixon |date=February 13, 2021 |title=How Portland's Andy Ngo turned his war with 'antifa' into a dubious, best-selling book |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/02/how-portlands-andy-ngo-turned-his-war-with-antifa-into-a-dubious-best-selling-book.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213172919/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/02/how-portlands-andy-ngo-turned-his-war-with-antifa-into-a-dubious-best-selling-book.html |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |accessdate=February 13, 2021 |work=[[The Oregonian]]}}</ref> Upon release, ''Unmasked'' became an [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] bestseller.<ref name="Nazaryan-2021"/><ref name="Nawotka-2021"/> For the week of February 14, 2021 ''Unmasked'' was listed as the top national bestseller in hardcover nonfiction by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''<ref name="The Seattle Times-2021">{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/the-four-winds-is-the-top-national-fiction-bestseller/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/the-four-winds-is-the-top-national-fiction-bestseller/| archive-date=2021-10-10 |title='The Four Winds' is the top national fiction bestseller |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=February 14, 2021 |accessdate=February 14, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and appeared as number three on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] for nonfiction.<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/>
 
In the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Alexander Nazaryan reviewed ''Unmasked'' as a "supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa".<ref name="Nazaryan-2021">{{cite news|last=Nazaryan|first=Alexander|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-08/andy-ngo-new-book-still-pretends-antifa-real-enemy| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-08/andy-ngo-new-book-still-pretends-antifa-real-enemy| archive-date=2021-10-10|title=Review: Andy Ngo's new book still pretends antifa's the real enemy|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 8, 2021|access-date=February 9, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> According to Nazaryan, Ngo wrote that his parents' immigration from Vietnam led him to describe his book as "a letter of gratitude to the nation" that made them welcome, as against the leftists who, he claims, wish to destroy it. "As an immigrant from a communist country", Nazaryan wrote, "I understand the sentiment. As a journalist, however, I must point out that he is churning out the very kind [of] propaganda that keeps authoritarians in power."<ref name="Nazaryan-2021" /> ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' described ''Unmasked'' as "a book that belongs in any [[QAnon]] subscriber's collection."<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 23, 2021|title=Ngo, Andy: UNMASKED.|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andy-ngo/unmasked-ngo/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andy-ngo/unmasked-ngo/| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-30|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|publisher=}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The Oregonian]]'', Shane Dixon Kavanaugh stated that ''Unmasked'' contained "serious omissions, errors and false equivalencies that have alarmed an array of academics and intelligence officials who track extremist movements."<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/>
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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>
 
He was credited with a leading role in popularising the conspiracy theory term "trantifa" (a [[Blend word|portmanteau]] of "transgender" and "antifa") starting from May 2023.<ref>{{cite news|last=Urquhart|first=Evan|title=Did Andy Ngo coin “TRANTIFA”?|publisher=Assigned Media|date=June 14, 2023|url=https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/did-trantifa-originate-with-andy-ngo}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Huggins|first=Katherine|title=‘ANTIFA is back but have evolved into TRANTIFA’: Trantifa is the hot new moral panic in the right|publisher=Newsweek|date=June 15, 2023|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trantifa-fox-news-andy-ngo}}</ref>
As of December 2023, Ngo has a 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>▼
 
▲As of December 2023, Ngo hashad aan 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>
 
=== Doxxing ===
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== Credibility ==
Ngo's credibility and objectivity as a journalist have been extensively criticized by other journalists.,<ref name="Gupta-2019"/><ref name="Derysh-2019">{{cite web |last1=Derysh |first1=Igor |title=Right-wing 'journalist' Andy Ngo outed: Video shows him hanging out with far-right hate group |url=https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-ngo-outed-video-shows-him-hanging-out-with-far-right-hate-group/ |website=Salon |access-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119162141/https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-ngo-outed-video-shows-him-hanging-out-with-far-right-hate-group/ |archive-date=19 January 2021 |date=28 August 2019}}</ref> and some sources denied him the status of a journalist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dickson|first=E.J.|title=How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=September 3, 2019|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/andy-ngo-is-journalisms-problem|title=Andy Ngo Is Journalism's Problem|date=September 3, 2019|first=Alaric|last=DeArment|website=[[Above the Law (website)|Above the Law]]|access-date=February 18, 2021|archive-date=May 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504130416/https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/andy-ngo-is-journalisms-problem|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2019, he has been accused of using selectively edited videos<ref name="Dalbey-2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/antifa-portland-protests-disinformation-propaganda/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/antifa-portland-protests-disinformation-propaganda/| archive-date=2021-10-10|title=Edited videos of Portland protests are telling half-truths|first=Alex|last=Dalbey|date=August 20, 2019|website=[[Daily Dot]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and sharing misleading and inaccurate information to paint antifa activists as violent,<ref>{{cite news|last=Strickland|first=Patrick|date=29 September 2020|title=Antifa and America's revamped Red Scare|work=Al Jazeera|agency=|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/29/antifa-hysteria-americas-revamped-red-scare| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/29/antifa-hysteria-americas-revamped-red-scare| archive-date=2021-10-10|quote=Among the witnesses called to testify were legislators from several states and Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist who describes himself as independent and objective but who has been accused of working with far-right groups in the past. Ngo, who last year made headlines when an anti-fascist punched him, has been criticised for sharing misleading and inaccurate information about anti-fascist demonstrators in his hometown.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and to underplay the violence of the [[far right]],<ref name="Donovan-2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007931/riot-porn-right-wing-vigilante-propaganda-social-media/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007931/riot-porn-right-wing-vigilante-propaganda-social-media/ |archive-date=2021-10-10 |last=Donovan |first=Joan |website=MIT Technology Review |date=3 September 2020 |title=How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets |quote=These narratives have been intensified and supplemented by the work of right-wing adversarial media-makers like Elijah Schaffer and Andy Ngo, who collect videos of conflict at public protests and recirculate them to their online audiences. Both have even gone 'undercover' by posing as protesters to capture footage for their channels, seeking to name and shame those marching. Their videos are edited, decontextualized, and shared among audiences hungry for a new fix of 'riot porn,' which instantly goes viral across the right-wing media ecosystem with the aid of influential pundits and politicians, including President Donald Trump.}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/andy-ngo-is-journalisms-problem/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/andy-ngo-is-journalisms-problem/| archive-date=2021-10-10|title=Andy Ngo Is Journalism's Problem|date=September 3, 2019|first=Alaric|last=Dearment|website=Above the Law}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Butler-2019a">{{cite news|first1=Grant|last1=Butler|access-date=January 5, 2020|title=Oregon's top 15 newsmakers of 2019|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/12/oregons-top-15-newsmakers-of-2019.html|date=December 29, 2019|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230174738/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/12/oregons-top-15-newsmakers-of-2019.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' describing Ngo as a "discredited provocateur".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tovrov |first1=Daniel |title=Dropshipping journalism |url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php| archive-date=2021-10-10 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=23 October 2019 |quote=The space freelancers once occupied has been partially taken up by new, inflammatory opinion writers like Ben Shapiro, Nigel Farage, and Newt Gingrich, who wrote the magazine’s May 10 cover story about China. Some of these writers, I'm told, do get paid. Other recent Newsweek writers have included Charlie Kirk, discredited provocateur Andy Ngo, and former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who wrote a thinly veiled advertisement for his new TV show about UFOs.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> While under cross-examination during the 2022 trial of a Portland citizen journalist, Ngo acknowledged that his tweets have resulted in threats and violence against those he targets.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goforth |first=Claire |date=2022-11-16 |title=Andy Ngô has long been accused of knowingly causing the subjects of his tweets to be targeted by his followers, which include mass shooters and far-right extremists. He finally admits they do |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andy-ngo-admits-his-tweets-lead-to-harassment/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305215155/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andy-ngo-admits-his-tweets-lead-to-harassment/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Journalist Andy Ngô loses criminal trial against Oregon journalist John Hacker |url=https://news.yahoo.com/journalist-andy-ng-loses-criminal-005811640.html |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=news.yahoo.com |date=November 17, 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202212441/https://news.yahoo.com/journalist-andy-ng-loses-criminal-005811640.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was reported in late 2022 that "no reputable outlets" showed interest at that time in citing his denunciatory tweets.<ref>{{cite news|last=Silverman|first=Robert|title=How Big-Time Right-Wing Trolls Andy Ngo and Tim Pool Tied Waukesha Killings to Black Lives Matter|publisher=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=November 23, 2022|url=https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/big-time-wing-trolls-andy-050136518.html}}</ref>
 
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"/>
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In June 2020, Ngo sued individuals allegedly associated with [[anti-fascism|antifa]], seeking $900,000 in damages for assault and emotional distress, and an injunction to prevent further harassment. The lawsuit, filed by Ngo's personal attorney [[Harmeet Dhillon]], a national Republican operative who served as a legal adviser to Trump's re-election campaign,<ref name="Kavanaugh-2021"/> cites [[Rose City Antifa]], five other named defendants, and additional unknown assailants.<ref name="Sparling-2020">{{cite web|last=Sparling|first=Zane|date=2020-12-23|title=Andy Ngo's lawsuit against Rose City Antifa, protesters can move forward, judge decides|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/12/andy-ngos-lawsuit-against-rose-city-antifa-protesters-can-move-forward-judge-decides.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/12/andy-ngos-lawsuit-against-rose-city-antifa-protesters-can-move-forward-judge-decides.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-17|website=The Oregonian|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The suit stems from multiple alleged attacks on Ngo in Portland during 2019: at a demonstration on May 1, at his local gym on May 7, and during a protest on June 29. In particular, the suit accuses Rose City Antifa of a "pattern of [[racketeering]] activities".<ref name="Thompson-2020"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://katu.com/news/local/portland-conservative-writer-andy-ngo-suing-antifa-for-injuries-during-protest| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://katu.com/news/local/portland-conservative-writer-andy-ngo-suing-antifa-for-injuries-during-protest| archive-date=2021-10-10 |title=Portland conservative writer suing 'antifa' for injuries |website=[[KATU]] |date=June 5, 2020 |access-date=June 5, 2020 |first=Don|last=Thompson}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On December 15, 2020, a [[Multnomah County, Oregon|Multnomah County]] judge denied a special motion to strike down the suit.<ref name="Sparling-2020"/>
 
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>
 
On February 24, 2021, Ngo provided testimony at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security following the [[2021 United States Capitol attack|U.S. Capitol attack]].<ref name="Buchman-2021"/> During the congressional hearing, which focused on the rise of [[domestic terrorism in the United States]], lawmakers denounced the insurrection that left five dead but diverged on how to address the problem.<ref name="Buchman-2021"/> Democratic lawmakers condemned false equivalencies and raised concerns about [[white supremacist]] violence and homegrown extremism, whereas Ngo, the sole witness called by Republicans, suggested the media was at fault for failing to criticize the looting and rioting that occurred after the [[murder of George Floyd]].<ref name="Buchman-2021"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Woodward|first=Alex|date=2021-02-25|title=House Democrats strike back at GOP 'false equivalencies' during domestic terror hearing|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-judiciary-domestic-terror-hearing-b1807045.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211010/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-judiciary-domestic-terror-hearing-b1807045.html| archive-date=2021-10-10|access-date=2021-04-10|website=The Independent|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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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"/>
 
== BibliographyWorks ==
* Ngo, Andy (2021). ''Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy''. Nashville, Tennessee: Center Street. {{ISBN|9781546059585}}.
 
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