[17] The website received global media attention in connection with the 2011 Norway attacks due to its association with perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik.

[24] Faktisk.no found Document.no to be part of a far-right echo chamber that simultaneously is one of Norway's most popular online newspapers in social media,[25] and a report on extremism on the Internet published in 2013 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security described Document.no as an "extremist website.

It moved from having the form of a blog to being a news site, as more authors as Christian Skaug, Nina Hjerpset-Østlie and Hanne Tolg joined the editorial team.

[47][44] The website has been cited as the main player when for the first time in Norwegian history, in 2009 "bloggers" were credited for successfully setting the national political agenda.

Eventually the bill became criticized as attacking freedom of speech, and an online petition against it was supported by numerous notable figures and organisations in Norway.

[16][48][49] Document.no received global media attention after the 2011 Norway attacks when it became known that terrorist Anders Behring Breivik had contributed comments to the site (among over 40 websites including Stormfront, Minerva, VG and Aftenposten),[50][51] attended one of its events and been in contact with its owner Rustad over a possible cooperation.

[54] Breivik reportedly sought to start a Norwegian version of the Tea Party movement in cooperation with the owners of Document.no, who initially expressed interest but ultimately turned down his proposal because he did not have the contacts he promised.

[53] Nina Hjerpset-Østlie, writing for Document.no was the first to break a scandal regarding an eight-minute news feature about a Roma woman in the public service broadcaster NRK in January 2013.

[58] The case was gradually rolled up by other commentators and gained widespread reporting in mainstream media, causing a major scandal for NRK.

"[16] Klassekampen has described it as a "leading online magazine" and has criticized it for not being transparent about the founding,[31] and among the political right's "most important arenas for debate" around immigration and Islam.

"[64] Helge Øgrim, editor of Journalisten, the journal of the Norwegian Union of Journalists, in July 2011 described Document.no as an "anti-immigrant forum which has evolved into a hotbed of galloping Islamophobia".

[65] Lars Gule described it in The Vancouver Sun as "a far-right web forum" that is "dominated by Islamophobic and anti-immigration commentary",[66] while the conservative Muslim commentator Mohammad Usman Rana has called it "a right-wing populist and Muslimphobic interest group".

[71] Anders Giæver, a commentator writing for the Verdens Gang tabloid, criticized the investigation that led to Tolg's resignation from her job in 2015 as a "Kafkaesque process" that followed "targeting" from online forums, Facebook groups, and RationalWiki.