Four days later, the Vanguard 's editor, Colleen Leary, fired Ngo and stated that he was dismissed because his summary of the Muslim student's remarks reflected a reckless oversimplification and violation of journalistic ethics, and was meant to incite a reaction. " Alongside the video, Ngo wrote: "At interfaith panel today, the Muslim student speaker said that apostates will be killed or banished in an Islamic state." Breitbart News picked up and circulated the video within 24 hours of Ngo's posting, which led to a "social media firestorm". In the clip, the student states, in part, "in a Muslim country, in a country based on the Koranic laws, disbelieving, or being an infidel, is not allowed so you will be given the choice. He attended an April 26 interfaith panel at the university, then used his personal account to tweet a video clip of a Muslim student's remarks. In 2017, Ngo drew national attention after he was fired from the Vanguard and accused the newspaper of firing him over his conservative political beliefs. In 2016, he reported on a demonstration organized by Don't Shoot Portland in which a man pulled a gun on a crowd of protesters. While enrolled at Portland State University (PSU), Ngo worked as a multimedia editor at the Portland State Vanguard, a student newspaper. Ngo has been described by critics as a disciple of James O'Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group.
While attending the school, he joined the Freethinkers of Portland State University, a student organization that worked closely with professor Peter Boghossian. 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. He began volunteering as a photographer at the Center for Inquiry in Portland in 2013. In the mid-2010s, Ngo came out as gay while visiting relatives in rural Vietnam. After graduation, he experienced a period of unemployment and worked as a photographer at a used car dealership. He graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a graphic design degree. While attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ngo volunteered with AmeriCorps. 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. He subsequently became an atheist 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".
After a period of time as an evangelical Christian, he became disillusioned and took an interest in skepticism. Raised in a Buddhist family, Ngo converted to Christianity in high school. 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. His father had been a police officer in a small coastal town in Vietnam. His mother came from an educated middle-class family that ran a jewelry business. His parents fled Vietnam in 1978 as Vietnamese boat people after they had been forced into labor and re-education camps by the communist government. Ngo was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
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