is there any indication it couldn’t be true tho?That's a really dangerous assumption to make, Exlight. There's also no indication that it could be true. It seems far more likely that there is an autonomous Jackal clone, considering everything else we know of the game. If Zinger wanted more activity from the Jackal account, he presumably would have poked SMS in some manner before just highjacking the account.
and who would be the clone? aren’t they supposed to just be backup bodies? if there was a clone from the very beginning this would be bizarre, specially considering they weren’t using that account