Twitter removes Amber Harrison tweets

Twitter has taken down posts by Amber Harrison, the former lover of Seven boss Tim Worner, following a court order.

Amber Harrison was ordered by a court not to publish any more private text message conversations between her and Tim Worner.

Twitter has removed a number of posts from the account of Amber Harrison — the former lover of Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner — after the media company yesterday convinced a judge to stop her leaking damaging and confidential documents about the company on social media.

Seven yesterday slapped Ms Harrison, a former executive assistant at Seven, with an interim court injunction to prohibit her from publishing any more private text message conversations between her and Mr Worner and other confidential company documents relating to her ousting from the network.

The court order prohibits Ms Harrison from disclosing, copying or reproducing any confidential information either by directly or indirectly giving interviews to any medium or media.

It says Ms Harrison must not issue press releases or hold press conferences or use social media to air any information about her time at Seven.

The injunction also orders her not to make any disparaging comments about Seven or its management and prohibits her from talking about her termination from Seven, her employment there, her relationship with Mr Worner and her records of expenses.

Despite being served the injunction yesterday morning, Ms Harrison posted two personal text messages between her and Mr Worner to Twitter yesterday afternoon. One of the text messages displayed Mr Worner’s private mobile phone number.

Tim Worner

Lawyers for Seven last night served notice to Twitter that the injunction had been put in place and requested that the offending tweets be removed.

Twitter has since deleted those two offending tweets and has withheld the content of about 20 more of Ms Harrison’s tweets from viewers in Australia.

Twitter said it would not comment on an individual account for privacy and security reasons.

Ms Harrison remained defiant in face of the injunction, yesterday tweeting a screenshot of Seven’s announcement of the ruling and saying: “Australia’s leading media company doesn’t want you to know the truth. Threatening me with jail if I continue to speak. What are they hiding?

“I call for all the major media companies to oppose the injunction on the basis of there being a profound public interest at stake.”

Ms Harrison has been waging a public war against Seven using Twitter to publish company letters and confidential documents.

Ms Harrison is seeking to expose “the truth” about what she claims is a cover up designed to push her out of the business after her affair with Mr Worner was made known to the company’s board in 2013.

But Seven independent director Jeff Kennett told The Weekend Australian earlier this month that he was “confident” the board’s review ­established ­beyond doubt that a series of ­explosive allegations could not be substantiated.

He has since taken to Twitter on the matter, where he has responded to tweets by Ms Harrison and other users.

“You have been very generously considered and assisted. SWM have treated you respectfully,” Mr Kennett told Ms Harrison yesterday.

He later added: “Amber has been treated very fairly and generously. Hope you will accept the facts when disclosed.”

Ms Harrison’s social media campaign against Seven began on February 4 when Mr Worner was cleared by the board over any wrongdoing in his affair with her.

The board concluded that Mr Worner should not be reprimanded for his role in the affair after an independent inquiry could not substantiate Ms Harrison’s claims that he engaged in drug taking or credit card fraud during their affair.

Mr Worner is scheduled to present the company’s financial results tomorrow.

The interim, ex parte injunction in the Supreme Court of NSW was served to Ms Harrison demanding her appearance at the Supreme Court of Sydney today.

But lawyers from both sides have agreed to push the court appearance back to February 21.

“It became clear late last week that Ms Harrison is now releasing or divulging commercial in confidence emails and other documents that she has no right to hold, access or release,” Seven West said in a statement released to the ASX yesterday.