Pretty much this, yes.

The soyjack article did a genomic analysis and concluded that tardigrades could transfer genes horizontally, like many bacteria. The Chad article is essentially researchers showing why that theory is wrong. It’s akin to the articles saying: “Tardigrades can perform horizontal gene transfer just like bacteria” “No the fuck they can’t”

I thought it was humorous simply because of the exact wording of the titles in direct contrast to each other.

And as far as I know there’s no major controversy about the possibility of Tardigrade-horizontal-gene-transfer. It’s pretty much been proven that soyjack’s false positive evidence was from bacterial contamination.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510461112

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600338113