[Unconfirmed] Forbes Takes a Google Search Traffic Hit.. Penalty?

A senior writer at Forbes, shared some data on Twitter(which he later removed) showing that Forbes.com has seen a huge and very concerning drop in traffic from Google organic search. He claims starting January 27th at 11pm ET there was almost a 10x drop in traffic to the content he published, based on his own traffic reports for his own stories at Forbes, but he said other writers are complaining as well. Tools like ahrefs and SEMRush have not picked it up just yet.

I am not a big fan of Forbes, they usually have a lot of clickbaity content and there are a lot of link builders selling links on there, so perhaps this might b a manual penalty?

NOTE: This is solely based on the post on SERoundtable and there is no way for us to know if this is true, but I believe this to be an interesting story which is why I have shared it.