(Jackson’s mom also got dragged into this, since a rumor spread that she was threatening to sue CBS.
If that’s not the case, the Big Brother Powers That Be never clarified, basically throwing themselves and Jackson under the bus together with their silence.
No one waited for proof that the rumor was true, they just spread it since it fit with it the anti-Jackson narrative.)
Jackson was not punished for cheating on slop, and then the Have-Nots twist stopped for everyone right after that, which made it look to viewers like it was all because of Jackson.