Our Community Forum on Bullying and Harassment in the Metaverse
UPDATED MAR 16, 2026
Forum date: December 2022
Countries: 32 countries
Representative Sample: 6,488
Guiding Questions: To what extent do the platform owners, such as Meta, have a responsibility to act to protect against bullying and harassment, particularly since the metaverse is an immersive reality in which bullying and harassment may have severe consequences?
A Community Forum on the Metaverse was conducted in collaboration with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab on the topic of bullying and harassment and was a first-of-its-kind experiment in global deliberation. We chose to focus on closed virtual spaces so that the forum could advise on policy and product development for virtual experiences such as Horizon Worlds. This Forum included 6,000 participants from 32 countries and functioned as an important pilot to establish proof of concept. Read more here.