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Many solutions have been proposed to reduce the impact of misinformation on social media. Among these solutions, direct public correction of misinformation offers a flexible, scalable, and immediate response to misinformation that celebrates user autonomy. Public correction is especially important because it enables observed correction, reaching many more people than the person being corrected. Despite the effectiveness of such corrections, social media users, fact checkers, and public health officials express real concerns about the risks of such public corrections. Considering ways to support these corrections remains an important challenge as part of a multi-layered, Swiss-cheese approach to mitigating misinformation.