conflating

verb

1. 1

   To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.

2. 2

   To mix together different elements.

3. 3

   (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.

   ““Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.””