Versions of this idea have been kicking around for almost 2000 years, as part of gnosticism. In the early centuries of the common era, some Jewish and Christian people (who would eventually be labeled heretics) believed that the world we see was not created by God, but by a being known as the demiurge. read more
If you conclude that it’s a simulation, then you could call that kind of the work of Satan, yeah. In other words, you could say the idea that the world is a simulation is Satanic influence by nature. read more