Several media outlets, including "The Oregonian" and "Rolling Stone" have been critical of Ngo and described him as a "right-wing provocateur". "BuzzFeed News" said that "Ngo's work is probably best described as media activism" and that he engages in "participant reporting". "New York" magazine cites Ngo as an example of "busybody journalism." In April 2019, Cathy Young, writing for "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.