No, strawman arguments are sort of similar, but they use analogies to form the link between two topics. They then discredit the weak strawman they have created in the hope that people will extrapolate that to implicitly discredit the other main topic as well.

Conflation attempts to merge two separate topics, generally a valid one with an already discredited one, so that people think they are two parts of the same thing. This is a better description for what the MSM is doing with "Qanon".