Jean-François Godbout

Full Professor, Political Science, Université de Montréal

Joined

July 2019

Names

Emails

****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Political Science, Université de Montréal (umontreal.ca)

2018 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Maximilian Puelma Touzel

2024 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Andreea Musulan

2024 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Kellin Pelrine

2022 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Camille Thibault

2022 – 2025

Coauthor

Reihaneh Rabbany

2020 – 2025

Expertise

computational social science

2007 – 2025

Publications

OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Real-World Deepfake Detection
Victor Livernoche, Akshatha Arodi, Andreea Musulan, Zachary Yang, Adam Salvail, Gaétan Marceau Caron, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
Matthew Kowal, Jasper Timm, Jean-François Godbout, Thomas Costello, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand, Adam Gleave, Kellin Pelrine
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
CrediBench : Building Web-Scale Network Datasets for Information Integrity
Emma Kondrup, Sebastian Sabry, Hussein Abdallah, Zachary Yang, James Zhou, Kellin Pelrine, Jean-François Godbout, Michael M. Bronstein, Reihaneh Rabbany, Shenyang Huang
- NPGML Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TRUTH: Teaching LLMs to Rerank for Truth in Misinformation Detection
Hao Yu, Shenyang Huang, Zachary Yang, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Kellin Pelrine, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany
- COLM 2025 Workshop SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Uncovering Hidden Factions through Text-Network Representations: Unsupervised Public Opinion Mapping of Iran on Twitter in the 2022 Unrest
Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany
- NLPOR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation
Camille Thibault, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Taylor Lynn Curtis, James Zhou, Florence Laflamme, Yuxiang Guan, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- SCSL @ ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Intuition to Understanding: Using AI Peers to Overcome Physics Misconceptions
Ruben Weijers, Denton Wu, Hannah Betts, Tamara Jacod, Yuxiang Guan, Vidya Sujaya, Kushal Dev, Toshali Goel, William Delooze, Reihaneh Rabbany, Ying Wu, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
From Intuition to Understanding: Using AI Peers to Overcome Physics Misconceptions
Ruben Weijers, Denton Wu, Hannah Betts, Tamara Jacod, Yuxiang Guan, Vidya Sujaya, Kushal Dev, William Delooze, Reihaneh Rabbany, Ying Wu, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- ICLR 2025 Workshop AI4CHL Oral
- Readers: Everyone
From Intuition to Understanding: Using AI Peers to Overcome Physics Misconceptions
Ruben Weijers, Denton Wu, Hannah Betts, Tamara Jacod, Yuxiang Guan, Vidya Sujaya, Kushal Dev, Toshali Goel, William Delooze, Reihaneh Rabbany, Ying Wu, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- ICLR 2025 FM-Wild Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation
Camille Thibault, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Taylor Lynn Curtis, Florence Laflamme, James Zhou, Yuxiang Guan, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- MLDPR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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