When articles like this are posted, there are usually many whataboutism comments regarding US tech companies also collecting data.
This is known as the False Equivalence Fallacy.
This is known as the False Equivalence Fallacy.
I've seen it many times: Fabricate something, attribute it to hypothetical commenters, and then disparage it.
There must be a term in the world of rhetoric. The first part is essentially a strawperson.