On the afternoon of May 5, the official WeChat account of the Luliangshan Revolutionary Museum in Shanxi Province issued a "closure announcement" saying that the director of the museum was pushed down by the mayor of Liishi District of Lüliang City. Soon after the announcement was issued, it rushed to the hot lists of major online media platforms, arousing the attention of netizens.

In the early morning of the 9th, the Information Office of the Luliang Municipal Government issued a preliminary investigation on the online rumor.