Trump used dark patterns to trick supporters into donating millions more than intended

Dark Patterns are user interfaces designed to trick you into doing what their creator wants. When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he didn't stop asking his supporters for money. The emails kept coming in. But by the end of his four years in office, according to a new report in The New York Times, they had begun to look an awful lot like a scam. By June 2020, the Trump campaign had begun using dark patterns, computer interfaces designed to trick users, to automatically sign up ca...