To be fair to the paper authors, they embrace and joke about it in their own headline '36 entangled officers'. PopSci headlines are always clickbait/sensationalised.
For most people this level of dishonesty would get them fired or at least a stern request to leave. If I go to my boss and tell him sure I did my job if my job was something other than what you asked, he will tell me "pls go".
This should be called what it is, lies, and it should not be allowed on HN, and it should get all quantamagazine's social media accounts suspended.