It really is important to be able to spot infiltrators. There are tipoffs and it does take a while to learn the patterns for one’s self.
They try to make the truth sound absurd. They create debates between two contrived “solutions”. They deliberately create confusion. They foster division and they promote revolution and violence.
They get way more press - alternative or otherwise - than someone genuine would.
When I was mirroring videos by shills (I wasn’t sure they were shills and I felt they still were spreading a lot of truth even if they were) in 2018, YouTube promoted my channels pretty hard. When I took the majority of those shills down, my Wikipedia entry disappeared and my numbers disappeared or plummeted. I am proud to show people that the controllers of the internet are obviously lying about me.
People know I’m real and they can use me as a yardstick to show how real opposition is treated by the system.