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After being cut off by Amazon and other tech giants, Parler worked for weeks to find a way to get back on the internet.

John Matze, who led the social media platform that was popular with conservatives, said he recently disagreed with one of the site’s backers, Rebekah Mercer.

Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken — but not in the way his supporters think.

The social network, popular with President Trump’s supporters, went offline last week after it was kicked off Amazon’s servers.

The app has renewed a debate about who holds power over online speech after the tech giants yanked their support for it and left it fighting for survival. Parler went dark early on Monday.

Google and Apple told Parler, a social network popular with far-right conservatives, that it must better police its users if it wants a place in their app stores.

The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.