conflate

To combine or mix together.

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.”

To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.

But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.

But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.

Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.

A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.