[2] Writing in Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi opined that based on "its Twitter responses to criticism of its report, PropOrNot sounded not like a group of sophisticated military analysts, but like one teenager".

[5][6] PropOrNot has said it analyzed data from Twitter and Facebook and tracked propaganda from a disinformation campaign by Russia that had a national reach of 15 million people within the United States.

"[1] Writers in The Intercept, Fortune, and Rolling Stone challenged The Washington Post for including a report by an organization with no reputation for fact-checking (such as PropOrNot itself) in an article on "fake news.

"[12][13][3] Writing for The Intercept, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ben Norton were particularly critical of the inclusion of Naked Capitalism on the list of "useful idiots" for Russian propagandists.

[2] Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source journalism website Bellingcat, referred to the methodology report as "pretty amateur" and told Chen: "I think it should have never been an article on any news site of any note.