The Free People: A Dystopian Novel

What kind of world would we live in if we could use an app to vote directly on anything instead of relying on politicians to shape the society around us?In the Collective, that app - known as Libertas - has long arrived.The Free People transports the reader into this near-future world engulfed by misinformation, where the masses determine everything with the push of a button.Manipulating the minds of the population to vote in favor of her clients is everyday business for an opinion architect like Alethea Caerere. When she's selected to defend a man accused of altering children's online school classes for his own political gains, it looks like just another trial. The verdict won't be handed down by a judge, but by the voters of the Collective - the Free People - using the Libertas app in a live trial.But when Alethea finds out her client was trying to stop a powerful lobby from conditioning the world's children, she may be the only person who can save her own daughter and the entire population from indoctrination.The only way to persuade voters is to employ the manipulative methods of opinion architecture. As a battle for public opinion erupts, neither the Free People nor Alethea can tell truth from lie.