It was a toss-up this week. The Skittles-refugee kerfuffle blew up in my feeds, but there were also a bunch of diverse items about chat bots. So let’s talk about both. But mainly chat bots.

Links from this episode:

• Skittles Responds to Donald Trump Jr.‘s Syrian Refugees Analogy to the Candy
• A new terror-alert system
• Trump, Skittles and the death of real-time marketing
• 9 out of 10 consumers want to text message with brands but most businesses can’t support that experience
• The Bot Economy Is Growing Even Faster Than the App Economy Did
• Oracle launches a chatbot development platform
• Sacramento Kings app lets you hail an Uber and talk to a chat bot