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The world is filled with falsehoods that were instantly and uncritically taken as truths by susceptible segments of the population.

Photos are admittedly different (text is slippery when it comes to true or false; there's a binary quality to the presence of a naked woman) but if the fake photo gets 100,000 views, and the "actually, it's fake" follow-up gets 100, it's a heavy lift for the latter to epistemically triumph over the former.

Yet many people believe 100% verifiably/scientifically proven lies, so something with 1% credibility wouldn't even give them pause for thought

I'd like to think you're right, but people today will believe any twitter screenshot, despite how easy it is to fake one.