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Who you link to is a signal, in both directions. Linking out to credible sources is normal editorial behaviour and helps establish what a page is about. Linking out to gambling, pharma or link-farm domains, or carrying paid links with no rel attribute, is a well-known way to get a site into trouble. This is the one part of your link profile you fully control, so it is worth knowing what is on the page.
No. That myth comes from the PageRank-hoarding era and has been wrong for over a decade. Pages that cite their sources are normal, and Google has said as much repeatedly. What causes problems is a specific pattern: many outbound commercial links with no rel attribute, particularly to unrelated industries.
No, and doing it sitewide looks strange. Use nofollow or sponsored where the link is paid, exchanged or otherwise not a genuine editorial recommendation. Leave ordinary citations alone.
They are all hints that a link should not pass ranking credit, and they tell Google why. Sponsored means paid or an exchange. Ugc means someone other than you put it there. Nofollow is the general-purpose one and is still fine to use.
Treat the site as compromised until proven otherwise. Injected outbound links, usually to pharma, gambling or replica goods, are the classic payload of a hacked WordPress install. Check your plugins, your theme files and your database for injected content before you simply delete the links, or they will return.
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