The changes have made it so anyone following you on the platform formerly known as Twitter can call and see your Internet Protocol address by default.
An IP address lists where your phone or computer lives on the internet - it's how you get messages and load websites. An exposed IP address can make you more vulnerable to dangers from spam to ID theft to revealing your location.
It poses perhaps the most serious risk to people like human-rights activists who create online accounts under pseudonyms to avoid persecution.
If you want to avoid random calls from people you may not know or want to hide your IP address from the X community, here are the mobile app settings you need to change:
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