The Federal Trade Commission levied a record $520 million fine earlier this week against Epic Games, creator of the extremely popular game Fortnite. Of this, $245 million is slated to go to customers whom the FTC said were tricked into purchases they didn’t intend to make. 

The FTC called the practice "dark patterns," or manipulative user interfaces which make it easy to spend money unintentionally. Some users lost money even on loading screens or while booting the game up. 

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