Yi-Ning Katherine Chen is a Taiwanese professor and former national communications regulator who teaches public relations and statistics at

National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei. The university is also considered as the earliest public service training facility of the Republic of China. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subs ...

. , she serves as a member of Facebook's independent Oversight Board. Chen attended

Taipei First Girls' High School Taipei First Girls High School (TFG; ; colloquially or ), is a Taiwanese all-girls senior high school, located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. Accepting only the top scorers in the national Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior Hig ...

and received a

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plant pathology Plant pathology (also phytopathology) is the scientific study of diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungus, fung ...

from the

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

in 1988, followed by an

M.S. A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

in that field from the same institution in 1990. She received a second M.S. in journalism from National Chengchi University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in that subject from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1999. Chen became a professor at National Chengchi University in 2004 and served as Associate Dean of the College of Communication there from 2010 to 2014, when she became a member of the National Communications Commission in 2014. She continued to teach as a professor concurrently with that service, which continued until 2018. Chen's research has focused on "

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, and

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". In May 2020, Chen was one of twenty professionals from around the world named to the Facebook's independent Oversight Board, an independent body tasked with making consequential precedential determinations about content moderation decisions made by Facebook and Instagram. Chen had also planned to publish a research paper on the

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at the

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, but by September 2020, she had become concerned that the newly implemented

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would jeopardize her ability to do so. In July 2023, following a recommendation from the oversight board to deplatform Cambodian head of state

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, the government of

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listed Chen as one of 22 people connected with Meta who were banned from entering the country.

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