Interesting article. It appears that you've discovered a quirk about SteemIt. The people who created the platform want original content and people who engage in the platform.

I think it is great that your Still Report column is published on other platform.

The best way for successful authors to use SteemIt is to drop a one line blurb about the article with a link to the full article. This would keep you from triggering Cheetah and provide some additional traffic to the web sites that publish your column.

Anyway, the circus around Russian collusion is such an absurd thing. It is well know that the Russians were colluding with the left for decades. Calling out the collusion would always be dismissed as McCarthyism.

I wish you luck on SteemIt. That Cheatah robot will end up ruining your experience on this platform.

It can be avoided simply by writing an original blurb for SteemIt posts. This shouldn't be a problem for a veteran news reporter.