They are everywhere and these days chatbots are good enough quality that you don't even need humans from Hasbara team to do it.

But not all people who get angry are shills. I try to moderate, but the amount of infinite stupidity, lack of doing any kind of basic research and believing each and every silly conspiracy sometimes gets the best of me.

But yeah, at least as an ideal it's best to:

• stick to the facts with probabilistic reasoning
• work with multiple (never single) concurrent alternative scenarios and narratives
• do not attribute everything to malice, stupidity is also near infinite, even with conspirators
• sometimes things just happen due to law of large numbers. Look for repeating, pattern-forming evidence, not mere single incidences
• don't believe your own bullshit
• falsify, falsify, falsify
• always concentrate on what is the EFFECT of what happened. If its a real conspiracy, the effect is what the conspirators are after: whether it is fear, anger, paralysis, call for government help or something else
• and always ask: Cui bono?