Is the safelinks protection outlook a phishing link?

Depending whether this is an organisational email or Outlook.com, it's one of the following: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection ATP Safe Links. Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers

This replaces suspicious links in emails with https://*.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/* links. If a user clicks the link, it first goes to Microsoft's site that then evaluates whether it thinks the link is safe or not, and then passes the user to the original site or gives a warning. (How ATP Safe Links works.)What "Safe Links" does is a totally bad practice for several reasons:  It destroys URL visibility. Typically the user decides whether a link is safe or not by examining the URL as schroeder described in his answer. Following this method the user may believe that this is a URL from a trustworthy site outlook.com/ over a secure TLS connection https://. It's even explicitly mentioned in the URL that it's a safe link and you are under a protection. But the link may be nothing but safe, and the protection may get its detection wrong, redirecting the user to a malicious site. This nullifies all the hard work put into educating the users on how they should handle suspicious URLs.

It's easy to bypass. E.g. Cryptron Security's Security analysis of O365 ATP reveals that it's possible to bypass the ATP Safe Links by

Slightly modified " href=" tags the ATP Safe Links isn't recognizing as links

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