By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It all started out because he was playing around on Google Earth. Aaron Jackson was at a crossroads. He was living in New York City and working at a nonprofit when the city was devastated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Stuck in his small Queens apartment, the self-described “news junkie” spent long stretches online, falling into internet wormholes. At some point, he says, he came across the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). The Church, which is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is best known for organizing pickets at soldiers’ funerals...