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The Third Sector has a key role to play in bringing together experts, including technology leaders, software engineers, researchers and advocates, to present a set of principles that can be provided to policymakers. These guidelines can focus on issues such as programmer bias that can result in virtual worlds that do not reflect the interests, needs, and concerns of traditionally marginalized groups. Other areas of focus could include protecting the rights of minors and ensuring that hate, violence and misogyny do not become mainstays of the metaverse like they do on the internet. The first signs of such problems are already emerging in the metaverse, including incidents involving gaming avatars.