Finally you have deleted the illicit content.
It does not matter if you excuse your behavior. You must correct your mistake, and never do it again.
Please understand this: Steemit is exclusively for creating original content. This is what you get paid for. If you want to promote other people’s work such as news articles, there are other platforms to do this, for instance, Twitter or Tumblr.
Also, if your posts do not contribute a significant amount of original work, i.e. if you post just a few words or just a single sentence, this is considered spam by the Steemit community, and you may thus be reported and flagged – even if the post in question doesn’t contain any copy/pasted content.
If you continue to post copy/pasted content, I and other users will report you to steemcleaners again, and will flag you.