It’s not exactly the same, in the first quote there are some nebulous ‘folks’ saying something while in the second quote the Swedes are not saying that thing.

It’s not exactly the same, in the first quote there are some nebulous ‘folks’ saying something while in the second quote the Swedes are not saying that thing. I don’t know what to call this fallacy. The ‘folks’ are unnamed and unspecified so I don’t think stating that they think anything is a useful argument at all.