the.com/false equivalence

means A reasoning error where two things are claimed to be equally significant or morally equal because they share a surface similarity, while ignoring a huge difference in scale, severity, or substance.

from Not an ancient word but a 20th-century logic/rhetoric term, built from Latin pieces already well established in English: 'false' (from falsus, deceptive) and 'equivalence' (from aequivalere, 'to have equal power or value'). It entered everyday use through logic and media-criticism circles, especially as a label for journalism that gives 'both sides' equal weight regardless of whether the evidence actually supports both sides equally — the term describing the trick long before anyone named it.