Your content might get penalized if it’s duplicate, repetitive, or obviously syndicated without matching domain authority.
You have to understand that the duplicate penalty is real.
A lot of people confuse the duplicate penalty with syndication.
They think that since syndication is okay, then this means that you can just copy somebody else’s content and republish it.
Absolutely wrong!
Historically speaking, syndication is intended for big media brands—I’m talking about newspapers, online magazines, that kind of thing.
And the reason why they syndicate is for some sort of commentary or just basically sharing the news.
This is completely different from a blogger just ripping other bloggers’ work off and presenting it as his or her own.
So focus first on originality.
But, more importantly, make sure that your content delivers on search intent.
So, at the end of the day, you're not going to be worrying about domains being penalized and all that, if you are taking care of your visitors.